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rayofreason (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 09:36 AM Original message |
William Proxmire dies |
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quaoar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
1. Proxmire's Top 10 Golden Fleece Awards |
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Flubadubya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 12:10 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. I worked on a research study that won the Golden Fleece Award... |
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hvn_nbr_2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 01:23 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. I've noticed that virtually any project... |
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Lisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 02:49 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. true! Or paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to drill into a glacier |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
2. I grew up listening to the praises of Proxmire. |
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sybylla (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 10:06 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. He used to show up at the farmers markets in Madison regularly |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 11:07 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. I shook his hand at State Fair when I was like 10. |
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snacker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 01:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. Me too... |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 11:32 AM Response to Reply #10 |
19. I've heard that he showed up everywhere. |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 12:21 PM Response to Reply #10 |
21. My parents were just walking in a park along Lake Michigan and there |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 01:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
29. Me too..... |
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AnnieBW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 03:26 PM Response to Reply #10 |
33. First Gene McCarthy, Now Proxmire |
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MadAsHell (571 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 06:32 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. maybe a more appropriate third is |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
3. The guy was a luddite. |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 09:51 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Smile when you say that ... eom |
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OldLeftieLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
4. Another hero gone |
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MaineDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
5. I loved the Golden Fleece Awards |
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DemonFighterLives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
6. Rest in Peace! |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
8. RIP you good man |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
9. I sort of recall a Time profile of him many years back... |
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Robert Cooper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
11. I was just thinking yesterday of how we need someone like him... |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
13. I remember one election where he spent $100 and his opponent spent |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 01:03 PM Response to Reply #13 |
23. I asked my dad and he remembered the same thing. |
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CornField (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
14. You think the current deficits did him in? |
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eyesroll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 11:16 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. He was 90, and had Alzheimers. |
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CornField (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 11:18 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I know |
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Dudley_DUright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
16. Having grown up in WI, I think that Proxmire was one of my early |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
18. I propose sending his casket into space. |
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AtTheEndOfTheDay (454 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 01:09 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. The shuttle blew up because |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 03:02 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. The shuttle blew up because of Proxmire's piss poor design. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 10:04 PM Response to Reply #32 |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 11:44 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Nope, Proxmire hit it first, then it went to hell. |
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Redroach (66 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-16-05 01:30 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Checked first link. |
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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-16-05 11:46 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. The space program should have been and should be a |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
24. There's golden fleece and then there's golden fleece. |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
27. William Proxmire, Senator Who Abhored Waste, Dies |
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buddysmellgood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 01:53 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Me too. He was a hero to many. |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
30. He was a great man. I met him in the |
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Serial Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
34. He did his job - to keep check on the government! |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-15-05 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
35. R-I-P Senator Proxmire |
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Violet_Crumble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-16-05 03:25 AM Response to Original message |
40. His fight to get the US to sign the Genocide Convention won me over... |
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