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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:27 PM Original message |
If you could reverse or prevent one event in all of American history ... |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
1. bu$h Presidency. |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 08:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
136. ++ |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. Sandra Day O'Connor becoming the swing "aye" vote crowning Bush. |
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kickysnana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
20. I concur. n/t |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 08:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
155. Mrs. "5 to 4". Thanks, Sandy. |
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waiting for hope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. Preventing George H. W. and Babs Bush |
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spag68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
37. HW and Babs |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 07:41 PM Response to Reply #3 |
133. charging Prescott Bush with Treason and finding him guilty |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
4. Federal Reserve |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. That's on my list. |
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roamer65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. Sadly, that was Woodrow Wilson's mistake. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:21 AM Response to Reply #4 |
53. Actually, this merely provided a bit of stability to an already predatory banking system... |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
5. Prohibit slavery from day one. n/t |
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rwenos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. A Follow-Up: Firing on Fort Sumpter |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:09 PM Response to Reply #12 |
104. The numbers of American deaths from the Civil War pales in comparison |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:36 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Why? Wouldn't that basically have split the union apart before Lincoln was even born? |
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WannaJumpMyScooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. You assume that is a bad thing? |
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rwenos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Confused: Violent or Non-Violent Schism? |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:42 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. If the South seceded, they would have still kept slaves. |
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Gabi Hayes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:40 PM Response to Reply #14 |
24. let the fricking south secede. |
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rwenos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:44 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Shall We All Send $50 to texasrepublic.com? |
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Gabi Hayes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:49 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. everybody I talk to about it thinks this was as bad a mistake (aside from slavery, various genocide) |
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quickesst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 06:41 AM Response to Reply #28 |
80. "I'm just being honest. " |
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hendo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
30. the question is something in American history |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:49 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. I don't know about that. Spanish Slavery was pretty bad. nt |
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keep_it_real (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 09:51 AM Response to Reply #5 |
92. Slavery, the massacre of native Americans, the fed, the |
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Carni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:19 PM Response to Reply #5 |
107. Good point |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
6. Tough, but provocative question.... |
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roamer65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
7. Election night, November 2000. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
9. the day the europeans landed on whats now called the united states. nt |
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rwenos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:36 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Are you of European or Asian Extraction? |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:38 AM Response to Reply #16 |
56. Can't say the Europeons "discovered" it if there where already people here, can we? |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 08:34 AM Response to Reply #16 |
86. well according to dna i am ashkenazi |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:52 PM Response to Reply #16 |
113. Mari's referring to an invasion of a continent, not a "discovery" of it. (nt) |
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Tom Kitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
10. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
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Ex Lurker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 01:38 AM Response to Reply #10 |
151. Good answer n/t |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
11. 9/11 |
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HopeFor2006 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:28 AM Response to Reply #11 |
55. Agree |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:36 AM Response to Reply #55 |
70. Exactly... |
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jimlup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 04:41 PM Response to Reply #11 |
118. Preventing the Bush presidency would have prevented 9/11 |
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Beam Me Up (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 04:59 PM Response to Reply #118 |
120. I wish we had a way of speaking about policies that "fail" at their stated intentions |
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jimlup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 12:24 AM Response to Reply #120 |
145. I'd love to see some of those deleted emails and other records they've been hiding |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 05:26 PM Response to Reply #118 |
122. And perhaps the only greater fools were those who supported, enabled, abetted, and shilled |
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WannaJumpMyScooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
13. Lincoln's assassination |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
18. Trail of Tears. No point to it, just a cruel, immoral, and unjust act by Jackson. |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:48 PM Response to Reply #18 |
33. Starting with George Washington the federal government had a "removal plan". |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:59 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Well, I would get rid of the notion that we could not co-exist with our native neighbors |
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asteroid2003QQ47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 07:19 PM Response to Reply #39 |
131. "We' had a small problem with in that "they" were squatting on "our" land! |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:37 PM Response to Reply #33 |
110. I would! Jackson defied |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:52 PM Response to Reply #33 |
114. Really different from the French who had an "intermarry and get along plan" early on. n/t |
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Alexander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:55 PM Response to Reply #33 |
115. Yet John Quincy Adams gave relatively favorable treatment to Native Americans. |
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LooseWilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 03:16 AM Response to Reply #18 |
75. I agree... Trail of Tears... but |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 07:32 PM Response to Reply #75 |
132. Agreed. nt |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 01:57 PM Response to Reply #18 |
99. my first choice n/t |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 01:59 PM Response to Reply #99 |
100. delete n/t |
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bbgrunt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
19. too many to choose. I concur with Fed Res but |
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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
22. right now, I'd say the repeal of Glass-Steagall. |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
23. Hmmm November 22nd 1963....methinks an awful lot of stuff that happened after that... |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
25. The Y2K Florida faux vote recount. |
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tomreedtoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
26. America not ratifying the League of Nations. |
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napoleon_in_rags (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
29. IS there one event that could have prevented institutionalized slavery? |
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Howzit (918 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:52 AM Response to Reply #29 |
58. Yes |
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napoleon_in_rags (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:30 AM Response to Reply #58 |
68. I don't think white people coming to North America is the problem. |
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Howzit (918 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 03:06 AM Response to Reply #68 |
73. There is little equality in in one people taking the land of another and wiping out |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 08:34 AM Response to Reply #73 |
87. Not all Euro-American settlers took part in "wiping out" Native Americans |
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Howzit (918 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 05:33 PM Response to Reply #87 |
123. We have all benefited from past atrocities even though we did not participate in them |
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paulsby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 06:56 PM Response to Reply #87 |
129. and plenty of native americans |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
31. JFK's assassination |
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peace frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:04 AM Response to Reply #31 |
62. +1 |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:40 AM Response to Reply #31 |
72. I'm with you. The assassination of Kennedy which really put Halliburton |
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SmileyRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
32. i would have kept the English in England. |
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smalll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #32 |
63. How about leaving the pseudo-Shakespearean English there too? |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:03 PM Response to Reply #32 |
103. See post 101. nm |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
36. The pardoning of Nixon et. al. by Gerald Ford. |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 06:36 PM Response to Reply #36 |
127. i'll second that one! |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-10-09 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
38. President Schwarzennegger's activation of Skynet in July 2017... |
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rwenos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:02 AM Response to Reply #38 |
42. When Skynet Became Self-Aware |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:06 AM Response to Reply #42 |
46. Sorry, human, in this timeline you're not John Connor. |
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rwenos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:17 AM Response to Reply #46 |
52. Dude, You're Spoiling My Digital Dream |
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Vinnie From Indy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
40. Not even close.... Bush elected in 2000 |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:02 PM Response to Reply #40 |
102. a worthy candidate...the recount loss cost us dearly n/t |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
41. The revolution, so we could now live free and civilized as Canadians... |
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rwenos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:03 AM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Prisoners of Majesty?! |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:08 AM Response to Reply #43 |
47. Nah... |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:04 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. plus we'd get national healthcare with that |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:04 AM Response to Reply #41 |
45. Uh, without the American Revolution there probably would not be a Canada right now |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:10 AM Response to Reply #45 |
48. I'm sure North America would have cut loose earlier than India... |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:11 AM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Good point. nt |
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rwenos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:15 AM Response to Reply #45 |
51. Catherine the Great's View |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:17 AM Response to Reply #45 |
66. Not really. |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:04 AM Response to Reply #41 |
61. Abso-fucking-lutely |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
50. Having not come to the aid of France against england in 1792. We could have prevented a lot of |
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smalll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:16 AM Response to Reply #50 |
65. Um, are you saying we should have "destroyed that island" meaning Britain? |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 03:09 AM Response to Reply #65 |
74. He basically means he wanted to bring down the British Empire in 1792. |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 09:56 AM Response to Reply #65 |
157. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:38 AM Response to Reply #50 |
71. Lovely.... |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 08:20 AM Response to Reply #71 |
156. Yep, I don't know why he's still here either. |
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davidinalameda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
54. the 2007 WVU Pitt game |
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CBR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 08:35 AM Response to Reply #54 |
88. LOL! Dont remind me... |
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davidinalameda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 01:37 PM Response to Reply #88 |
94. I know!!!!! |
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Howzit (918 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
57. Christopher Columbus' ship sinks before he discovers America |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 12:56 AM Response to Reply #57 |
59. It was only a matter of time before the Europeans discovered the Americas |
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Howzit (918 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 05:35 PM Response to Reply #59 |
125. Missing the point |
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scrinmaster (563 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 08:02 AM Response to Reply #57 |
83. And the native owners came to America through Siberia. |
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dem629 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 08:54 PM Response to Reply #57 |
140. Where do you live? |
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Howzit (918 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 10:01 PM Response to Reply #140 |
141. Perhaps this will answer the real question? |
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dem629 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 10:29 PM Response to Reply #141 |
144. Nope. |
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Howzit (918 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 01:07 AM Response to Reply #144 |
148. California |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 01:56 AM Response to Original message |
60. To add a wrinkle to the question. |
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beyurslf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:14 AM Response to Original message |
64. Slavery here |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:20 AM Response to Original message |
67. I'd stop the assassination of Robert Kennedy |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:35 AM Response to Original message |
69. Personally, the election of Joe McCarthy |
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asteroid2003QQ47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 03:18 AM Response to Original message |
76. The one event! |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 03:35 AM Response to Original message |
77. Gigli |
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Adsos Letter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 03:49 AM Response to Original message |
78. The acceptance of slavery in the colonies... |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 05:58 AM Response to Original message |
79. In my lifetime, the assassination of John Kennedy. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 06:46 AM Response to Original message |
81. Manhattan Project |
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PCIntern (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 06:47 AM Response to Original message |
82. Chico Ruiz stealing home in 1964 against the Phillies in a 1-0 game |
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SlingBlade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 08:12 AM Response to Original message |
84. Prescott Bush being tried and convicted of treason for |
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asteroid2003QQ47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 06:53 PM Response to Reply #84 |
128. Prescott Bush tried and convicted of treason in Amerika? Never happen! |
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BulletproofLandshark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
85. The rise of the military-industrial complex. |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
89. I Wish I Could Say "Dropping the A-Bomb" |
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CBR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
90. Without a doubt... |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
91. That's easy. |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
93. 1950 and the issue of the first general purpose Credit Card. It doomed America. |
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azmouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
95. Raygun interferring with the Iranian hostages situation. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #95 |
108. & the war against democracy. Mine is OLLIE NORTH IS NOT A HERO FOR SUBVERTING THE CONSTITUTION |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
96. Bush Sr making it out safely after he sent his crew to their deaths... |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
97. The birth of Prescott Bush. |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
98. the murder of MLK Jr. nt |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
101. The genocide of the Native Peoples of America. nm |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
105. Personhood for corporations |
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kiranon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 07:53 PM Response to Reply #105 |
135. Agree and it needs to be reversed. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 08:52 PM Response to Reply #135 |
139. That would be a good crusade. |
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Carni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
106. Bush |
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morgan2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
109. pardoning of nixon |
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3waygeek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
111. The decision in |
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CLG_News (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
112. Diebold 'voting' machines should have been destroyed.... |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
116. I'm really surprised nobody said... |
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ananda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
117. Bush v. Gore decision |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
119. i'd go back and give the native americans machine guns to repel european explorers and settlers... |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
121. Toss up: Entry into WWI -or not permitting the Confederacy to secede. |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
124. Either my parent's divorce or maybe the death of my grandfather. |
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Peace_Sells (130 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
126. 1980 election |
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jimlup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 12:41 AM Response to Reply #126 |
146. Yes, for those of us old enough to remember that was really the start of ... |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 07:13 PM Response to Original message |
130. The sucess of the various religiously based colonies - I wish they had failed |
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GreatCaesarsGhost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
134. letting rupert murdoch become an american citizen. |
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Kat45 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
137. Corporate personhood |
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Undercurrent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
138. . |
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dweller (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
142. walking upright |
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lies and propaganda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-11-09 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
143. Katrina |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 12:59 AM Response to Original message |
147. The assassination of Dr. King. |
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rcrush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
149. Easy. Get rid of Prescott Bush and you might prevent most major wars of the 20th century |
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GaYellowDawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
150. Turn Carter's failed hostage rescue attempt into complete success... |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 01:59 AM Response to Original message |
152. Omit the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 06:33 AM Response to Original message |
153. Lincoln launching the Civil War to keep the South in the Union |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
154. The accidental discovery ... |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
158. Alexander Hamilton would have died 25 years earlier, & we might have remained true |
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leftchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
159. the genocide of Native Americans |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-12-09 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
160. the RFK assassination. |
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