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jmowreader

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9. Yeah, that's what I was thinking...

Reply to sadbear (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 09:58 PM

Jan 2013

The Republicans who deify the Founders may not have considered that the Founders, by and large, held slaves and grew marijuana. Now, there's nothing wrong with growing marijuana from our perspective, but those guys on the other side are staunch anti-weed types.

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Is your local paper full of "writings of the founders" letters? [View all] jmowreader Jan 2013 OP

Not to mention but some people equate the "founders" to the Gods of Mount Olympus Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2013 #1

I think it's worth pondering how many of our Founding Fathers were in the dementia stage of Aristus Jan 2013 #2

The subjugation of an entire race of people was legal back then, too. sadbear Jan 2013 #3

Yeah, that's what I was thinking... jmowreader Jan 2013 #9

If the founders saw the tyranny of corporate capitalism there would be another revolution libtodeath Jan 2013 #4

There are so many quotes regarding the fact the founding fathers did not want a standing army Lint Head Jan 2013 #5

I live just outside Chicago, a very blue area Drale Jan 2013 #6

On my Facebook someone posted Dyedinthewoolliberal Jan 2013 #7

Only one way to change it - rewrite the Constitution regjoe Jan 2013 #8