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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:31 AM Original message |
You know, in the country in which I was raised, Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann would be . . . . |
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HillbillyBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. I have been walking around for some years thinking |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:44 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. I agree with you HillbillyBob |
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Greybnk48 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:55 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Love Heilein. Aldous Huxley as well. |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:59 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. "Vulcan's Hammer" by Philip K. Dick (1960) was prescient as well.... |
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Greybnk48 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:05 AM Response to Reply #9 |
14. That sounds like a winner. Thanks! |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 11:59 AM Response to Reply #14 |
65. This was the edition I read as a kid. It was a "double novel" paperback. |
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quarbis (235 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 04:33 PM Response to Reply #65 |
101. Amazon has |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 06:43 PM Response to Reply #101 |
118. Yeah, I saw it there. |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 07:52 AM Response to Reply #65 |
137. That is the pure, uncut stuffs.... |
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HillbillyBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:08 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. I will have to pu a copy..I am a voracious reader..and have missed that one |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:42 AM Response to Reply #9 |
54. Excellent books all. |
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cactusfractal (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:49 AM Response to Reply #7 |
58. Read again Heinlein's "If This Goes On..." |
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gauguin57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:03 PM Response to Reply #7 |
126. Oh, just chill out and take your Soma. |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:23 AM Response to Reply #1 |
22. +1 - These people are dangerous. n/t |
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gordianot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:18 AM Response to Reply #1 |
44. I met Heinlein in the late 60's as teenager and got to talk to him and his brother. |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:44 AM Response to Reply #44 |
56. I am seriously envious. |
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Bette Noir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:15 PM Response to Reply #56 |
71. Be careful what you wish for. Writers can be among the most self-involved jerks around. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:49 PM Response to Reply #71 |
84. You don't know what you're talking about - |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 01:55 PM Response to Reply #71 |
89. LOL. True sometimes |
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gordianot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 02:32 PM Response to Reply #56 |
96. Heinlein and his brother were over grown kids wading the muck in the creek. |
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PavePusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:12 PM Response to Reply #96 |
122. Neo-con? Heh, I don't really think so. |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 01:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
86. The trying to bring it on is what really scares me about these people |
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itsnotaboutu (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 12:50 AM Response to Reply #86 |
131. The problem is |
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HillWilliam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 08:36 AM Response to Reply #86 |
140. I've mostly recovered long ago but |
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BobbyBoring (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 02:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
97. You and me both Bob |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:39 AM Response to Original message |
2. You got that right |
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catbyte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:42 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I've been alive since 1955, and I noticed the change with Reagan |
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Greybnk48 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:02 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. I think that's when the former "Moonies" went mainstream. |
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HillWilliam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 08:40 AM Response to Reply #10 |
141. Buddah-boom! |
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HillbillyBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:06 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. That was when they started to come out of their churches onto the stage |
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Greybnk48 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:12 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. When I saw the transformation of a couple of my |
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USMCMustang (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:21 AM Response to Reply #15 |
45. FYI The Sadducees |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
75. I remember growing up in this era and the religious crazies being marginalized |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 12:34 AM Response to Reply #75 |
130. I went to a "Holy Roller" summer camp once |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:06 PM Response to Reply #4 |
66. I agree. Reagan put us into a steep decline, and we've never fixed it. |
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HillWilliam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 08:50 AM Response to Reply #66 |
142. I think it really started long before Raygun |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 04:43 PM Response to Reply #4 |
103. Deleted message |
hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 05:10 PM Response to Reply #103 |
110. Pizza, please!! |
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BlueJazz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 05:21 PM Response to Reply #103 |
111. How do you remove God ? I thought he/she was all powerful? |
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maheanuu (135 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 05:39 PM Response to Reply #103 |
113. Sorry Lenny, but your Xtian Crap is just that |
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russspeakeasy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:34 AM Response to Reply #2 |
52. Just grasping at straws here, but isn't it partly due to the |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
3. K & R. n/t |
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muffin1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
6. Yep. |
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nc4bo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:59 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I can't believe the entire Republican Party is batshitcrazy. |
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muffin1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:13 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. Well, both parties have been moving steadily to the right. |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:38 PM Response to Reply #18 |
80. It's more than that. It is a cataclysmic shift. |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 05:10 AM Response to Reply #18 |
143. I think you've got that backwards |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:58 AM Response to Reply #8 |
28. Many of the old-line sensible Repubs were simply purged |
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Fuddnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:31 AM Response to Reply #28 |
51. They ran all of the sane ones out in Florida. |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:48 AM Response to Reply #28 |
57. Which is why we need to retake the local parties. |
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Bette Noir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
79. No, the current crop of Republicans is way beyond what was "fringe" in the '60s. |
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BobbyBoring (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 03:00 PM Response to Reply #79 |
98. You got that right |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
11. Is this because people CAN'T or because they WON'T see through the bullshit? |
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dmosh42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 09:13 AM Response to Reply #11 |
32. You have the correct answer! The country has become dumber than ever! |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 09:58 AM Response to Reply #32 |
39. There is a point at which the stupid could achieve critical mass. I personally don't believe we're |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:01 AM Response to Reply #39 |
41. P.S. But I do believe that point is FAST approaching. nt |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
12. until the late 70's it was considered unseemly and fringe even in Evangelical circles |
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woodsprite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:18 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. More important is how can we turn it back? |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 09:33 AM Response to Reply #20 |
35. For one thing, drive wedges where you can... |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:19 PM Response to Reply #35 |
73. You could also point out the many, many violations of Christ's teachings by conservatives. |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:59 AM Response to Reply #12 |
29. Falwell and Robertson. nt |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:51 AM Response to Reply #12 |
59. How did it happen? One word - money. n/t |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 05:23 PM Response to Reply #12 |
112. Silent majority becomes less of a majority and so becomes less silent. I think it is last gasp, |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
13. Great Post.....Welcome to The Future |
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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 01:57 PM Response to Reply #13 |
90. I was just thinking the other day, that what is happening in |
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woodsprite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:15 AM Response to Original message |
19. The Repub party is making a laughingstock of being Christian. |
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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 02:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
91. I just thought with all of them saying God told them to run |
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dgibby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 02:05 PM Response to Reply #19 |
92. I was a liberal Presbyterian too, |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
21. Yes, I remember those days and back then the Republican Party, |
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get the red out (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:35 AM Response to Original message |
23. You nailed it |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:41 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. That cartoon song should be used by Jon Stewart |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
25. Crazy is IN. (nt) |
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RevStPatrick (564 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
26. I started reading Stinky's OP... |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
27. Reinforcing fanaticism and hate daily... |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 09:03 AM Response to Original message |
30. I don't think Perry will go as far as some pundits think... |
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justabob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:29 AM Response to Reply #30 |
50. i hope not, |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:33 PM Response to Reply #30 |
77. 2nd |
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CanonRay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 09:09 AM Response to Original message |
31. I'm astonished by how fast it all went in the crapper |
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Paladin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
33. Well Said, STC. |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 11:15 AM Response to Reply #33 |
62. We are all capable of stopping it... |
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FormerDittoHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
34. I think it's less religion and more "respect". They want the "respect" they don't get from us. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 09:52 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. "Respect" This is insightful. |
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HillbillyBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:21 AM Response to Reply #38 |
46. They show ultimate disrespect for us by telling us we are abomination |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:10 PM Response to Reply #46 |
69. I know, HBB, because I do know them personally and have known them most of my life. |
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catrose (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 02:18 PM Response to Reply #34 |
95. My parents were Baptist, but I attended parochial schools |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
36. I also can no longer recognize the USA. 50 years ago, people would be laughing their heads off at |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
37. Eisenhower may have fired a handgun. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 06:11 AM Response to Reply #37 |
133. True, but he never wore his old uniform as a civilian n/t |
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ChoppinBroccoli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
40. In the country in which I was raised, Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann would be . . . |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:08 AM Response to Reply #40 |
43. They still would be unqualified to work at 7-11 |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
42. I think testing them for chemicals be it drugs or mercury is in order just to rule out those things. |
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jbfam4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:42 AM Response to Reply #42 |
53. tests needed |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 04:50 PM Response to Reply #53 |
105. That won't happen. |
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joanbarnes (204 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
47. My thoughts exactly. Why does anyone pay any attention to these nuts? |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
48. This is the fruit of "Triangulation". Most of the "mainstream" Republicans of old have repositioned |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 05:55 PM Response to Reply #48 |
115. That's one of the biggest truths in this entire thread. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 06:12 AM Response to Reply #48 |
134. Indeed. All the Democrats became Republicans, and all the Republicans |
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Fuddnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
49. Today's NYT. "Rick Perry's Unanswered Prayers. |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
55. The evangelicals breed like rabbits |
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kwolf68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
60. I am believing religion is a disease |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
61. I can't tell you how many times I've thought the same thing. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #61 |
72. Funny you should mention that. After years of dreaming about "houses", I stopped for |
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progress2k12nbynd (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
63. Stinky, I've lurked for years and always loved your posts and I couldn't agree more... |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
64. "The Republican Party fears its base. The Democratic Party loathes its base." - David Frum |
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mochajava666 (771 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 04:58 PM Response to Reply #64 |
106. That is the first intelligent thing I've heard from Frum. |
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Kablooie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
67. Maybe God is taking a vacation and temporarily let Rod Serling take over. |
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Emit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
68. Oh, Stinky, you're spot on! |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
70. It frightens me. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:29 PM Response to Reply #70 |
74. So many families are so fucked up, make lots of mistakes in parenting, teachers are left |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:33 PM Response to Reply #74 |
78. Agreed. Teachers get left holding the bag for an entire fucked up society |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:40 PM Response to Reply #78 |
81. Yep! You have that right, HWNN!! The Amerikkkan Way! |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:47 PM Response to Reply #78 |
83. I also maintain there's a not insignificant Secessionist sub-strate there. Why else would Rick Perry |
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irislake (967 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
76. I sincerely believe that it makes absolutely no difference |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
82. And this is entirely because of the Koch funded DLC. |
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on point (613 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
85. Yep, many repukes are to the right of insanity these days... |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
87. They would have been run out of town for their extremisms |
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young_at_heart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
88. Reagan brought fundamentalism to the White House |
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alsame (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 02:17 PM Response to Reply #88 |
94. Yep. And they invested in media consolidation, their own |
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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
93. The only news media people I see, even saying they are |
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Doc Holliday (62 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 04:04 PM Response to Reply #93 |
99. It might pay to bear in mind |
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on point (613 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 05:05 PM Response to Reply #99 |
108. Perry did not create jobs, he REMOVED them from other states |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 04:45 PM Response to Reply #93 |
104. Follow the money. The "nuts" are filling the media's pockets. |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
100. Actually it's an alternate universe switched on us while we slept. |
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socialindependocrat (379 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
102. If Adams and Franklin were alive today, tsk,tsk,tsk!!! n/t |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
107. At the end of the last century, the rapturists crawled out of the woodwork. It was predicted. |
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callous taoboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
109. It is the Wal-Martization of America. Cheap, plastic cock-suckers have a chance now. |
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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
114. Interesting analysis. I'm a bit confused by your comparison though and view on religion/candidates |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 06:59 PM Response to Reply #114 |
120. Actually their religion isn't that bad -- that's the problem |
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Hotler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
116. BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO! eom. |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
117. K&R |
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dash_bannon (79 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
119. I remember that country... |
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PavePusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:05 PM Response to Original message |
121. Heinlein may have had better precognition than anyone knew... |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
123. the more these types run, the more they become the norm |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
124. already done that |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
125. Fox News chief -they are running the show and everyone is reacting to them |
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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
127. Rec #200 - You earned it, Stinky! |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
128. Reagan's Legacy. |
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AlbertCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-12-11 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
129. There has always been stupid... |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
132. I blame the media for instilling lunacy in us peons |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 06:58 AM Response to Original message |
135. They are both "dumb" which is a necessary quality for a winning GOP candidate. |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 07:46 AM Response to Original message |
136. Gee, Stink, I grew up watching George Wallace run for Pres. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 07:58 AM Response to Reply #136 |
139. By your statement, I am a fan of Pat Buchannan. I resent your saying that. |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-13-11 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
138. The country in which we were raised no longer exists |
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