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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 09:56 PM
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Dr Laura learns that having the right to say a word doesn't mean you ought to use it.
Exercising 1st amendment rights doesn't guarantee that it's a good idea.
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Rage for Order Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 10:13 PM
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1. There's an interesting parallel to this concept in current events
But I can't quite put my finger on it
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 11:40 PM
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4. I hope you are not equating someone building a house of worship in a building they own
to obnoxiously and ignorantly using the 'n' word in a diatribe.

You wouldn't do that, would you?
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 11:59 PM
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5. I think he's actually talking about certain criticism of a certain public official
And the attempt to marginalize the critics.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-18-10 12:03 AM
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I hope so.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-18-10 12:03 AM
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6. delete - dupe nt
Edited on Wed Aug-18-10 12:03 AM by Hissyspit
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 10:15 PM
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2. Watch it. Some wingnut will equate what you just said to the ground zero mosque... "Excercising the
constitutional rights doesn't guarantee that it's a good idea".

Seriously...don't give them ideas.
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demosincebirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 10:32 PM
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3. I heard she lost her job. They are not going to renew her contract.
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ibegurpard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-18-10 12:07 AM
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7. now she can join Sarah Palin in the professional victim brigade
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