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20score Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 04:13 AM
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Re: Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists
Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 05:01 AM by 20score
An email sent to me by a friend who wanted me to respond. So, here's the email followed by my response.


Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters,

We've stuck together since the late 1950s, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know that we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and just will not ever agree on what's right. So let's just end it right now while we can do it on friendly terms. We can smile, shake hands, chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and each go our own way.

So here's a model separation agreement.

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a portion. That's going to be the difficult part, but I'm sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy. Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate taste. We don't like redistributive taxes so you can have those. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. And since you hate guns and you hate war, we'll take the firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. But you are going to be responsible for finding a biodiesel vehicle big enough to haul them around.

We'll keep the capitalism, the greedy corporations, the pharmaceutical companies; we will keep Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have the homeless, the homeboys, the hippies and illegal aliens. We will keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, the greedy CEOS and all of the rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and we'll let you have NBC and Hollywood.

You can be nice to Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer anybody that threatens us. You can have the peaceniks and the war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we will provide them with security. You won't have to worry about it. We will keep our Judeo-Christian values. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley Maclaine. You can also have the UN, but we will no longer pay the bill.

We will keep the SUVs, the pickup trucks and the oversize luxury cars. You can have the compacts, the subcompacts and every Subaru station wagon you can find. You can give everybody healthcare, if you can find any practicing doctors. We will continue to believe that healthcare is a privilege and not a right. We will keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and the national anthem, and I am sure you will be happy to substitute in their place "Imagine." I'd like to teach the world to sing "Kumbaya" or "We are the world." We will practice trickle-down economics and you can give trickle-up poverty your best shot. And since it so offends you, we will keep our history, our name and our flag.

Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots. And if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the friendly spirit of parting, I'll bet you ANWAR which one of us will need whose help in about 15 years.

Sincerely,

John J Wall

Law student and an American



Dear Conservatives, Rightists, Regressives, Fascists, Nazis and Bush Supporters,


Thank you so much for bringing up the divorce our side has been asking about for the last eight years. You’re a little late trying to do this on friendly terms, but we are feeling a bit more magnanimous than we have been for the past few years. You caught us at a good time. But, if you don’t mind, lets please expedite this process as we are trying speed up our metaphorical cruise, and we’ll move a lot faster without our metaphorical anchor.

So, here’s a counter offer:

Your side has about 20% to 25% of the population, so that’s what you should have in landmass. Should be contiguous for obvious reasons, but we’ll work that part out later as there will be some people upset no matter where we put you. (The south does come to mind for ease of logistics.) We will be glad to take the liberal judges and the ACLU along with the Constitution they understand and defend. (You do kind of fuck it up, just like you do with the Bible when you read it, so it’s better off in our hands.) We will also be glad to take Michael Moore, Oprah and Rosie O’Donnell, Hollywood and NBC. And please, take the greedy CEO’s, Palin, rednecks, all bigots and if don’t mind, right wing radio with you. Well, all propaganda if that's okay. Plus, yes, we’ll take all religions, but would prefer if you take the theocrats of all stripes. Cool?

Good.

Now here’s where it gets tricky. See, we both need cops and military. We will let you have a military, but you will have to build your own. We started this country don’t forget, along with ending slavery, child labor and Jim Crow. We ended the Great Depression, won WWII, gave women the vote and gave the world all the great comedians. You fought to keep all the bad ideas and gave us Bush; so we’ll use our upper hand even if you do mind. Now, on to the cops. Again, both sides need cops, but you can have the ones you are so quick to defend after they shoot or beat someone that hadn’t done anything wrong.

Great, let’s start today.


Sincerely,

Someone who is not going to lie about being a law student.



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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 04:18 AM
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1. excellently crafted response -
k&r
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 04:28 PM
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41. awesome
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 04:20 AM
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2. I love you madly.
Recommended.

:kick:
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20score Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 04:41 AM
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6. Well, you've made my night!
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 04:21 AM
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3. Good response.
Could you work something in about how most of the wealth comes from the blue states?
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20score Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 07:11 PM
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45. Next one. Thanks!
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AZ Criminal JD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:11 PM
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81. Except you will have to make it up
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 04:22 AM
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4. "I'll bet you ANWAR"?
Who the heck is he? And why would he let you wager on him, Mr. Wall?
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Tiggeroshii Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 04:23 AM
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5. Hehe. I like that.
Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 04:27 AM by Tiggeroshii
Hope it circulates well and quickly! =)
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 04:56 AM
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7. if that one hits my inbox,
can i gank your response? i tend to get too serious...
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20score Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 02:38 PM
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37. Please do. And Thanks!
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:00 AM
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8. I just Google-bookmarked this entire thread!
I just KNOW that that pretentious mendacity will land in my in-box soon enough, so I'll be well prepared.

THANKS for that excellent response!

pnorman
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:14 AM
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9. Do we tell our law student his Battle Hymn of the Republic was written by a pacifist?
Unitarian, suffragist and feminist?

It belongs more with the team that takes "Imagine", I think. Although I am not sure why either of us would get to claim a Liverpool lad's song.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 09:39 AM
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24. Oh you libruls with your facts and stuff.
You're ruining that wonderful email! ;)
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:25 AM
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10. Good job.
That kind of crazy crap makes me so angry. You did cool!
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:26 AM
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11. "healthcare is a privilege and not a right" ??!!! FUCK THEM!! nt
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 06:02 AM
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14. Yeah. You might add to this:
"You can have all the doctors who care more about profits and wealth than about healing the sick. We'll see, a while from now, whose population is healthier."
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:18 AM
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29. That's what stuck out for me as well....
That someone actually had the audacity to state this. I always gave the right the benefit of the doubt thinking that they just hadn't thought it through.

Very sad. :(

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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:43 AM
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12. I have a better idea.
Dear Conservatives;

America, love it or leave it and don't let the door hit you on the way out. End of discussion.

Sincerely

An American that isn't willing to give up one square inch of this country to the likes of your fascist asses.
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:53 AM
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13. I know this place -- it's Dumbfuckistan! And it's also a perfect description of hell.
And wingnuts want cops without paying taxes! AHHHAHHH! :bounce: O', that's right, they'd have "mobile response units" manned by Blackwater misfits. That'll keep the peace.

Sometimes I wish that this were actually feasible -- getting all the wingnuts *OUT* of the system. Can you imagine how they'd pass the average day? Rednecks and shitkickers lying down with mega-corporations, big pharma and Wall Street? All SUVs and pickup trucks?

I wouldn't want to live downwind from such a sewer. :puke:

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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:01 AM
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22. Have you ever seen the movie Idiocracy
That's the way they would pass the day...

On Meth

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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 06:22 AM
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15. K&R. That was an amazing response. Right on...
I'm so very glad that you're on our side... ;) :applause: :yourock:
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20score Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 06:58 AM
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17. Thank you!
You rock!!!
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ihavenobias Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:32 PM
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48. No, YOU rock.
:)
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 09:12 PM
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50. I agree, my friend. You truly do rock...
And you're a real asset to DU. Keep up the great work and please get some sleep... :hangover:

Rhiannon :yourock::hi:
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geckosfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 06:28 AM
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16. Judeao-Christian values ; definition please!
Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 06:29 AM by geckosfeet
From the inter-tubelet known as Wikipedia:

In the American context, historians use the term Judeo–Christian to refer to the influence of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament on Protestant thought and values, most especially the Puritan, Presbyterian and Evangelical heritage. These founding generations of Americans saw themselves as heirs to the Hebrew Bible, and its teachings on liberty, responsibility, hard work, ethics, justice, equality, a sense of choseness and an ethical mission to the world, which have become key components of the American character, what is called the 'American Creed.' These ideas from the Hebrew Bible, brought into American history by Protestants, are seen as underpinning the American Revolution, Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Other authors are interested in tracing the religious beliefs of America's founding fathers, emphasizing both Jewish and Christian influence in their personal beliefs and how this was translated into the creation of American institutions and character.

To these historians, the interest of the concept Judeo–Christian is not theology but on actual culture and history as it evolved in America. These authors discern a melding of Jewish thought into Protestant teachings—which added onto the heritage of English history and common law, as well as Enlightenment thinking—resulted in the birth of American democracy.


Emphasis mine.

In essence, a self deluded lot of revisionist determinists.
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dgibby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 07:09 AM
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18. My response:
No problem. We get the USA, you get GITMO. After all, you're the ones who support keeping it open.
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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 07:10 AM
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19. And take that fat fuck on the radio with you
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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 12:50 AM
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66. That would be the first thing I'd be willing to let them have
But you know we'd have to watch our border carefully, because he'd be trying to get across to get his 'fix'.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 07:15 AM
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20. Awesome response!
:yourock:

Can I rent you out for my next right-wing family reunion? :evilgrin:
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20score Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 01:46 PM
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34. Thanks!
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flobee1 Donating Member (515 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 07:53 AM
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21. return letter
Once again you have proven why we are in need of a divorce. You fail to listen and understand. We dont hate guns, and war is sometimes unavoidable. What we hate is invading a country for oil, and the damn near giving away of guns on every streetcorner. You are more than welcome to the nra but the military and cops stay with us. Your past incompitence with them has proven that you are unable to use them properly. As a fair compromise, you can have the Blackwater thugs to make up for your lack of military.
As far as the greedy ceo's wal-mart and the rest, they belonged to you to begin with-get them out of our country. The Bible, on the other hand, is owned by nobody. If you had read it, you would know that. Religion will be free to come and go as it pleases, and will be owned by nobody-as it should be. You are free, of course, to start your own-as long as it is not forced upon anyone.
Now we come to the bills-If you want to invade, plunder and destroy other countries, we wont stop you. We just want you to be aware that you must pay that bill, and the remaining debt on the current bill as our name is no longer on the account. As a trade off, we will accept the U.N. That bill was never paid by you to begin with, so the anger is somewhat confusing.
We will gladly accept the healthcare as long as you dont obstruct the doctors that want to leave from leaving, and dont knock on our door when you can no longer pay for yours. The vehicle trade off is more than fair as long as you keep your hands off our bio-deisel and alternative fuel plants.
You and your trickle down contraption! That hunk of crap has never worked since you insisted we buy into it. Take it!-along with all the conservative congresscritters whose appetite has driven us to the verge of bankruptcy.
We, on the other hand, will be taking the constitution. You dont, or wont understand it, never wanted it, and mocked it at every turn. It will have a better life with us. Same goes for all the "liberal teachers and Colleges" They too, will begin to grow again under our care.
We also insist on keeping the FDIC, the labor laws, unions, Public transportation, and all the other FDR programs you insisted on destroying.
Giving you the south seems like a fair trade to me. Texas to virginia. Its what you wanted all along anyway-its yours! As you make up 25% of the population(see bush approval #'s)That is more than enough land. As we have the unions, and road building programs, we will gladly let you use them for a fee that unions feel fair. If you really want the flag, you can have it-but after what you have done to it-does it still have any meaning? you have used it to plunder and destroy, and most countrie see it as a symbol of arrogance-not to mention, now that the country has split, the symbolism is no longer relevant.

I hope you agree with this, as has already been agreed to by the Obama Voters.
We wish you luck with the new south and find it best that your intrests no longer conflict with ours.
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proReality Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 12:14 AM
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They get Texas and nothing else!
Better yet, let them have the 9th Ward in NO. Maybe then it will finally be repaired.
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:05 AM
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23. K&R
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dalaigh lllama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 09:39 AM
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25. Perfect response!
K&R
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chill_wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 09:58 AM
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26. Very good! K& R.
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ihavenobias Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 10:09 AM
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27. K & R # 24
"...We will be glad to take the liberal judges and the ACLU along with the Constitution they understand and defend..."
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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:10 AM
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28. We stop coal mining in the northern Appalachias, you can make Kingston, TN a national park...
Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 11:12 AM by cascadiance
... where you and your loved corporations can celebrate your usage of "clean coal" as the brain cells start to decline more and more with the added coal environmental damage along with the mercury poisoning it lets loose. At least "clean coal" tries to keep stuff out of the air so it won't spread northward to us. Then we'd have to find ways to keep that mercury from going downstream to the ocean where we also get our fish from. Perhaps any trade agreement we have will factor in cleanup costs for that as well as the next Exxon style oil spill you'll have when you have off-shore oil drilling down there, since you'll no longer have Alaska or California coasts to drill from...
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Downtown Hound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:50 AM
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30. You might also want to mention that
Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 11:51 AM by Downtown Hound
red states practically pig out at the federal trough, taking far more government money that comes from the blue states, the ones that don't whine and bitch about paying taxes. He thinks were going to need help in 15 years? LOL. They won't last even 5. What they basically want is a return to The Articles of Confederation. We all know how well those worked the last time.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:53 AM
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31. Right. If we get a divorce, they'll need to get a job. n/t
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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 12:35 PM
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32. They'll have to get loans from China... I wonder how BOTH China and their "citizens"...
... will feel about that!

They might have to outsource building of weaponry too, if they don't have a big enough or competent enough citizenry to do the job. And then again, will they be able to spend all of their money on weapons and not have anything left over for anything else there. The Christian folk might eventually wake up and see that they'll be the only ones left that the rich elites can screw for this stuff.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 12:53 PM
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33. Why would a friend send something like this? What kind of response was he looking for?
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20score Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 02:06 PM
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35. He sent this to me so I could craft a response for him.
(He said he didn't know what to say to this type of email.)
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 02:10 PM
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36. oh, ok! So he wanted to respond to someone else who sent it to him!
Well, you did him a solid!
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 03:02 PM
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38. hold on--WE get the Constitution. THEY get the BIBLE n/t
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Fedja Donating Member (544 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 03:00 AM
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69. Nah, the liberals should have both
Note: I'm a rabid atheist, so don't read too much into what I say.

Still, I have no problem with the Bible. It's a great book, and the foundation of a glorious religion (to those that care to believe). When actually read, there's nothing wrong with it.

The problem is the neoconservative crowd using it to creatively interpret and excuse their fascism. No, I say they're not yet ready for it, and should stick to books with many colorful pictures in them. The Bible should be entrusted to people who read it as a foundation of a religion of love and equality.
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suede1 Donating Member (770 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 03:58 PM
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39. Great response! Hope this gets used and blog rolled. K & R
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ihavenobias Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 04:21 PM
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40. Kick n/t
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dcindian Donating Member (881 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 04:33 PM
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42. Well done.
Perfect as is.
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tama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 05:47 PM
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43. So,
both of you are going to fuck all over the natives peoples and their anarchist friends, again? ;)

Both of yous, remember it's not your land to divide between you and never was, you stole it. Raped it. And keep raping it.
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MattBaggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 06:13 PM
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44. About needing help in 15 years...
You do realize don't you that the rest of the world hates you with a passion; and when asked who they would choose to side with, they will choose us. You would be a small insignificant country isolated from the rest of the world by the time 15 years had rolled around.

Good luck with your endeavors in freeper land.
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Jakes Progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 07:16 PM
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46. Don't forget to settle the finances.
While they were our "partner" that group has run up trillions in debt. It is only fair that they assume that debt since they were the ones who actively sought it and profited from it. We'll settle for them paying off any debt incurred since the Clinton administration.
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20score Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 07:50 PM
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47. Good point! But they really should pay for Raygun's and Bush I's debt, too.
Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 07:50 PM by 20score
And the Iraq War.
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Jakes Progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 10:07 PM
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55. Clinton already did that.
The Iraq War belongs to bushco. You are right though. They represent only 20% of the population but spend 80% of the wealth.
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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 12:52 AM
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67. Then we want all the money they owe for the Clinton budget
Because they all voted for it.

I want the money from the deficit that was erased and the surplus that was created.
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Laelth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:35 PM
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49. Very nice. n/t
:dem:

-Laelth
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yellerpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 09:19 PM
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51. Wonderful!
K&R!
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 09:27 PM
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52. LOL good response
:)
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BlancheSplanchnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 09:31 PM
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53. Awesome!
What a great response. I never know what to say to this kind of ignorant repuke talking point garbage. I end up totally speechless.

This is excellent!

And I like alot of the contributions in the thread too.

:applause:
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hbskifreak Donating Member (43 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 09:34 PM
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54. yeah, divorce, like a battered spouse...
Amazing thing is there were still 58,343,671 (humans?) who in November of 2008 thought..."don't change a thing...everything's groovy!"

You know, Lincoln is my favorite president, but I really have always wondered...why fight to keep the garbage-can ideals of the conservative. Screw it, yeah...give them Texas, Georgia, Utah, and Alaska. We hereby rescind any claim to ANWAR...let them tear it to pieces for the measly 3% of the world's oil supply, and as for the wildlife, we can relocate it to Montana and Wyoming, just like we'd have to relocate the wildlife from Wyoming (Cheney) to Texas...a fair swap if you ask me.
And make them pay a crazy tariff every time they try to travel...by rail only (can't trust the fuckers flying over OUR skies)between their new states. Does kinda make Alaska a pretty tough challenge, but their Brigham Young graduates can probably figure something out, maybe they can develop a hyperspace transporter, or a trans-warp difusicator (Oh, sorry, that probably won't be invented for another 1000 years or so.)

And even though population wise, Louisiana voted for McCain, we are still keeping it...they hated it enough to let New Orleans fester and not rebuild it, they can forfeit it. I love that idea of letting them keep the Backwater turds as their Gestapo, er, uh, police department.

Also kinda makes you wonder what those people are going to eat? Oh, I know, Alaskans can eat crab flavored snow cones, Georgia can eat cotton flavored peach cobbler, folks from Utah can eat each other, then die, and the Texans can eat mexican food, because although conservatives HATE Mexicans, they hate even worse to cook, clean, wash windows, drive taxis, dig ditches, work in fields, and basically any other kind of menial labor that they look down their noses at....so Texas, the most hypocritical state in history with it's hate of Mexicans, will have more Mexicans living and working there than conservatives!!!

Muchos Gracias, Amigo, tu estas EL HOMBRE!!!!

A
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The Wizard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 10:09 PM
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56. I demand an end
to the reconstruction of the Confederacy. And so does the self proclaimed conservative law student.
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 10:40 PM
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57. Why do they get any land mass in the United States. They would fit in Russia just fine. Heavy
security with no freedoms like the Patriot Act, domestic spying and torture. They can take the KKK with them, and Karl Rove.
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:18 PM
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58. They're gonna get so burned.
We get Wayne's World and all the best punk and rock n roll. They get pollution and clearcut forests. We get electric cars and sushi!

And the best espresso ever.

We rock. Excellent!
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TBF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:26 PM
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59. Just give me a few days to get myself (in my Subaru wagon) out of Texas,
and they can have it. I think they'll all fit - lots of room in West Texas. They must agree to keep all refineries and accompanying pollution/explosions.
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 11:50 PM
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60. Yeah and Red States live off of Blue States too
And they have the highest rates of divorce. And... well you can go on.

I also would like to keep government functions, they can laugh at volcano monitoring or crazy institutions like FEMA and they can find a way to get the mail delivered or have an all privatized school system, I'm good with all of that.
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spoony Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 12:08 AM
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61. Great reply, k/r
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NoSheep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 12:14 AM
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62. The fascists are going to let us have NBC? Stupid son of a bitch.
He doesn't know who owns NBC! :rofl:
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BobTheSubgenius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 12:25 AM
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63. Excellent response!!!!!
The first letter created the usual reaction I have to obnoxious drivel of that ilk, but your response made me feel better. You're like David Michael Green - a Regressive Antidote. :)
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 12:37 AM
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64. Pretty old email with just a few twists
Sometimes the mail comes from our side and sometimes from theirs and either way it's just meant as baiting.

That said, I would be happy to see our country divide up after our fall from empire. I just hope Washington gets to go with California, Oregon and Canada. I'd love it if we became Canucks.
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MajorChode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 12:47 AM
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65. What is it about wingnuts that attracts them so strongly to chain letters?
I mean really. It it weren't for wingnuts I don't think there would be such a thing as a chain letter. Something about them draws them in like flies to a bug zapper. Send a chain letter of any type to a wingnut and it will multiply faster than hillbilly siblings sharing the same bathwater.

Hardly a week goes by that I don't get a wingnut sending me one. The bogus ones are easy to spot after the first few words as they are obviously geared for consumption by those who are at least 2 standard deviations to the left on the bell curve. Apparently none of the fuckers knows how to use snopes or any other fact-checking site. Oh well, I guess if they weren't so goddam gullible they wouldn't be wingnuts in the first place.
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20score Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 05:01 AM
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70. Too funny!
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NoSheep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 08:04 AM
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72. Can't think for themselves. That may be the whole problem.
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MajorChode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 09:53 AM
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75. Why should they think for themselves when so many will do it for them?
Certainly there are pundits on the left, but look at the ones the wingnuts prefer. Almost without exception they appeal to the lower simian brain functions of their listeners and most of that is anger and hate. It's a damn good thing Bill Buckley is not trying to get his start in this day and age. He'd be inside a subway terminal spewing conservative intellectual ideology for quarters tossed into a hat.
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NoSheep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:32 PM
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83. Buckley's smart-ass factor and smirk...the visible disdain he had for
Edited on Wed Mar-25-09 11:33 PM by NoSheep
anyone he felt to be "beneath" him would have them mesmerized. He'd be drafted for president. That kind of reptilian recognizes the cold blood of another. It's all in the smirk..and the smell of fear they give off. Buckley can rot in hell. I am sickened by his new stature as a "thinking man" since his death and the continued destruction from his ilk in the aftermath. He had enough money to cultivate the perfect ass-hole that he was. But he was no smarter than the rest of them. He bred them. That was pretty fucking stupid, wouldn't you say?
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gollyohgolly Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 02:48 AM
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68. Growing apart
Ideologies are getting polarized enough that people are talking about splitting it up. Sad.

The way that it looks from here, the progressives would get the the the big cities, most of the east and all of the west coast, New England, HI, and most of the upper Midwest. New Orleans would be a problem, but they need to stop building in a wetland anyway. Here is a chance to build a model city from the ground up.
It would be interesting. There would be trade still, the city folks will need food and energy, the country folks will need drugs, Chinese food, beer, and the opportunity to socialize and breed outside of the family for a change.
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rambler_american Donating Member (565 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 06:12 AM
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71. One addendum
We will also keep the money we've been giving you. I'm sure you won't mind since that smacks of socialism.

http://democraticactionteam.org/redstatesocialism/index.html

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tinkerbell41 Donating Member (722 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 08:09 AM
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73. Illegals???
Great post. They can have the illegals, they hired them.
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beachykeen Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 08:34 AM
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74. The divorce, cont.
I don't know who gets the credit for this one, or when it was written, but I came across it last year.

Dear Red States...

We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.

We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.

We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.

We get Intel, Apple (who advocated against prop 8) and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.

We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama.

We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.

Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners) 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.

Peace out,

Blue States
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Alcibiades Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 02:42 PM
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76. They also get the Klan
Inquiring minds want to know: do black conservatives count as "homeboys," or does "J J Wall" only apply racist digs to folks who don't agree with him?
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Fire1sKid Donating Member (223 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 07:01 PM
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77. FUCKIN A!!!
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 07:04 PM
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78. Excellent
:yourock:
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tosh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 07:50 PM
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79. I'm loving this! What a shame we can't make it happen!!
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leapinggnome Donating Member (51 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 09:59 PM
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80. what can I say?
That is the most awesome piece I have read in a long time. I thought at first that the original e-mail was, well, snark. Then I realized that this person is serious. Wow.

Way to let em have it!
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:22 PM
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82. Please, Florida has enough yahoos, don't send them south!
And, wow! what struck me most profundly in the tirade:

"We will continue to believe that healthcare is a privilege and not a right."

:yoiks:
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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 11:42 PM
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84. AND we're going to put up a BIG TALL fence at the new border
to keep you all out!

Buh-bye! :hi:
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