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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-08 11:49 PM
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Poll question: Your country or your family?
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-08 11:51 PM
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1. Their fates are intertwined. n/t
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 11:45 AM
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8. The only reply needed. nt
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-08 11:53 PM
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2. I have over six billion cousins ... so, family.
:shrug:
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-08 11:54 PM
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3. Your Momma!
That ought to get things going to decide if its family vs country.

SETTLE, DONE, STORY OVER.






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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-05-08 11:59 PM
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4. Family
and I suspect we just might fare better in a country where we all have meaningful access to healthcare.....
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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 03:17 AM
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5. Sorry to say . . .
. . . but country is pretty far down on my list.
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Joe the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 03:58 AM
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6. This is an easy one........
Family of course, McCain's country first is BS!
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razors edge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 11:43 AM
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7. A country is just
a line on a map drawn by someone.

A state is just the Mafia in present power.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-08 11:52 AM
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9. "Patriotism is the most foolish of passions and the passion of fools."
Schopenhauer

"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." - Thomas Paine

"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead." - Arundhati Roy
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