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katandmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-10 10:40 AM
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So you have a choice to support women's health or the oligarch - and you go with the oligarth.
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  -Bill and Melinda ain't all that ensho  Sep-06-10 10:03 AM   #0 
  - If they "don't want to be part of the controversy.", shouldn't they let the doctors and women  madmom   Sep-06-10 10:14 AM   #1 
  - Oh no! They are not perfectly in sync with all DUers?  stray cat   Sep-06-10 10:16 AM   #2 
  - So you have a choice to support women's health or the oligarch - and you go with the oligarth.  katandmoon   Sep-06-10 10:40 AM   # 
     - Shocking isn't it?  SammyWinstonJack   Sep-06-10 11:31 AM   #32 
  - How 'bout they help out with health care in the country which made them rich?  area51   Sep-06-10 10:19 AM   #3 
  - in 2008, nine million children under age 5 died  mzteris   Sep-06-10 11:39 AM   #33 
  - Not bad for a man who sold the Ford Pinto of software for decades  HysteryDiagnosis   Sep-06-10 10:23 AM   #4 
  - LOL...bullshit! You Gates haters are just jealous!  KansasVoter   Sep-06-10 10:25 AM   #5 
     - 010010101 100110111 000000111 111101011 n/t  HysteryDiagnosis   Sep-06-10 10:31 AM   #6 
        - OK.....  KansasVoter   Sep-06-10 10:37 AM   #8 
           - Well, I for one don't approve of some of their actions in the past, your  HysteryDiagnosis   Sep-06-10 11:04 AM   #24 
  - Bill the college dropout wants to reform education  proud2BlibKansan   Sep-06-10 10:37 AM   #7 
  - So he spends 1.5 billion on a good cause but not what some thinks he should spend it on!  KansasVoter   Sep-06-10 10:39 AM   #9 
     - Yes, the Koch brothers are so revered here.  katandmoon   Sep-06-10 10:43 AM   #14 
     - I see as many anti-gate posts as anti-koch ones. It should be 20-1  KansasVoter   Sep-06-10 10:48 AM   #15 
     - you left out something - the women, us women, our sisters in Africa  ensho   Sep-06-10 10:56 AM   #19 
     - you're totally off-base - they are NOT "anti-abortionists"  mzteris   Sep-06-10 11:41 AM   #35 
     - So did the Kochs  proud2BlibKansan   Sep-06-10 11:20 AM   #27 
        - You are irrational based on one experience with Gates and computers. I forgive you.  KansasVoter   Sep-06-10 12:04 PM   #39 
  - I guess giving 1.5 billion isn't enough for some..  Upton   Sep-06-10 10:40 AM   #10 
  - No, they are immensely rich and powerful. So they are utterly above criticism.  katandmoon   Sep-06-10 10:42 AM   #12 
  - It is a joke. Gates gives Billions to good causes and people hate him here.  KansasVoter   Sep-06-10 10:49 AM   #16 
  - Doesn't make much sense does it?  Upton   Sep-06-10 11:03 AM   #23 
  - And they are buying the stairway to heaven. So they think.  Curmudgeoness   Sep-06-10 11:11 AM   #25 
  - Are you related to Bill or something?  proud2BlibKansan   Sep-06-10 11:29 AM   #31 
     - Gates has also given money  Upton   Sep-06-10 11:41 AM   #34 
        - it shouldn't matter - the level of good that has been done  mzteris   Sep-06-10 11:43 AM   #36 
        - So he's bipartisan  proud2BlibKansan   Sep-06-10 11:49 AM   #38 
  - its called a 'sanity test' the Gates failed  ensho   Sep-06-10 10:57 AM   #20 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-06-10 11:48 AM   #37 
  - that is a lie - they are not anti-abortionist  mzteris   Sep-06-10 12:49 PM   #40 
  - So money buys respect?  proud2BlibKansan   Sep-06-10 11:23 AM   #28 
  - giving up? Yeah, like they didn't get an equal TAX BENEFIT for that amount  Donnachaidh   Sep-06-10 12:56 PM   #42 
  - I don't think they're religiously insane - I think they are either social cowards -  haele   Sep-06-10 10:40 AM   #11 
  - They Are Pragmatic  iamjoy   Sep-06-10 10:53 AM   #18 
     - I feel the need to insult them - openingly and loudly  ensho   Sep-06-10 11:00 AM   #21 
  - I have never, ever supported the philosophy behind their philanthropy.  Brickbat   Sep-06-10 10:43 AM   #13 
  - they're spearheading public school privatization  ibegurpard   Sep-06-10 10:49 AM   #17 
  - ditto  ensho   Sep-06-10 11:00 AM   #22 
  - double ditto  proud2BlibKansan   Sep-06-10 11:24 AM   #29 
  - Oh look - the opposite complaint:  mzteris   Sep-06-10 11:15 AM   #26 
  - avoiding the controversy for this organization -  mzteris   Sep-06-10 11:24 AM   #30 
  - Bill Gates the Misogynist Pig  Odin2005   Sep-06-10 12:51 PM   #41 
 

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