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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 05:58 PM Original message |
You know what? I can handle "the unthinkable" |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. I've always disliked the word "unthinkable" |
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dchill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 07:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
28. I can "think" anything... |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 09:52 PM Response to Reply #28 |
36. Get with the program. Be afraid. Be very afraid. |
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dchill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 10:48 PM Response to Reply #36 |
43. OK, you got me... |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 02:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
50. Me too, but for other reasons |
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Dammit Ann (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. I can survive, have had to before. I'm with you. |
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islandmkl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
3. my advice to the fat cats: |
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Tallison (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
4. But I don't want myself and millions of others to have to |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. My point - |
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Tallison (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. They are con men, AND this is scary! |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:26 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. The problem is that there are many |
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Tallison (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 07:05 PM Response to Reply #11 |
26. As I mention below... |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:36 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. The thing that bothers me though.. |
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Tallison (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 07:03 PM Response to Reply #16 |
25. But there are never any guarantees; only probabilities |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 08:00 AM Response to Reply #25 |
52. I don't advocate doing nothing.. |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 07:19 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. Not only does it steal the money, but it diminishes the resources |
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Tallison (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 09:44 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Dems right now are hammering out draft legislation that would extend |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 10:29 PM Response to Reply #33 |
42. Haven't heard that about the expediture over four years thingy |
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Tallison (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 06:32 AM Response to Reply #42 |
51. Yes, per Chris Dodd on C-Span Tues and on the Lehar News Hour Monday |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 08:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
31. I don't believe that has been sufficiently documented. |
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Tallison (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 09:48 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. It has been in just about every progressive-leaning editorial I've read |
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Seldona (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 12:15 AM Response to Reply #34 |
45. Supporting new regulations and interventions |
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libnnc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. I just want them to tell me what will happen |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:37 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. Former CEO's end up in bread lines.. |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 10:08 PM Response to Reply #17 |
39. that would be an interesting site. |
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screembloodymurder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:38 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. They can't mention the unthinkable in front of the children. |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
7. "You'll have a Bankers strike on your hands"... |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
8. I don't worry about myself so much. |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
9. I hear what you people are saying |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
12. It seems like we've been waiting for this.. |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:29 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. You know what will probably happen? |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. It's looking that way, unless somebody in Washington... |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:39 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. You got it. n/t |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:41 PM Response to Reply #13 |
23. the only logical thing.. |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
14. I know what you mean.. |
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renate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:38 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. agreed... but there's materialism, and then there's feeding our families |
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Tallison (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 07:10 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Yes, and to that end, intervention is necessary |
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roody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 10:18 PM Response to Reply #21 |
41. Responsibly? When is the last time the Congress, |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:42 PM Response to Reply #14 |
24. I agree |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 02:27 AM Response to Reply #14 |
49. It's a bad thing if everyone becomes poor and the poor get even poorer |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:38 PM Response to Original message |
19. This phrase, "I am not afraid" makes you the rare exception here. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 06:38 PM Response to Original message |
20. I'm with you. They're going to have to think again if they want to scare me. |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 10:12 PM Response to Reply #20 |
40. remember what Naomi Klein said |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 01:13 AM Response to Reply #40 |
46. It's harder for people with young children and for older folks. |
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BraneMatter (99 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
29. My car has been... |
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Tallison (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 09:51 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. Where the heck are you posting from, then? |
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The Leveller (49 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
32. Well said |
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Dukkha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
37. I keep thinking of a like in the Matrix Reloaded |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-23-08 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
38. True. People live with the "unthinkable" every day |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
44. In the words of Ma Joad from the end of the film The Grapes Of Wrath |
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Rocknrule (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
47. I thought by "unthinkable" you meant another stolen election |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 01:33 AM Response to Original message |
48. Me too. Ain't skeered. |
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