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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 06:01 PM
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If Jefferson had had a Blackberry, we'd still be British.

If FDR had had a Blackberry, we wouldn't have Social Security.

If LBJ had had a Blackberry, we wouldn't have Medicare.

Every leader who has stepped up and taken risks to make our lives better has been a complete dick idiot.

Like Martin Luther King, Jr.

Maybe being a dick idiot is an important component in actually caring about the American people.

And insisting on the hypocritical Republican standards for OUR representation will be only in their interests and not in ours.

Thank you for participating in an orchestrated political assassination.
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William769 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 06:07 PM
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1. If Jefferson also had a conscious
Thats also when we might have had out first African American First Lady.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 06:09 PM
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2. Conscious?
I'd say he was quite conscious.
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 06:10 PM
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3. Since that is bouncing off a series of posts.
Edited on Thu Jun-16-11 06:20 PM by RandomThoughts
You forget, not backing down to a threat is not doing what is done to someone.

I am due beer and travel money.

Not hard to figure out, and if those that like to destroy want to destroy, that is there choice.

It does not change that I am due beer and travel money, neither would any attempts at censorship, since each attempt would only open up other ways to say what needs to be said.

I really am due beer and travel money, and no threats of harm or destruction changes that, becuase anyone that would make such threats, does not deserve any control over my choices.

They can try to keep me away from people, by wrongful attempts to remove beer and travel money, as was attempted years ago, but that money will be sent.

And to those that think they have sent that, I walked down to the kitchen, looked on the table, there was no envelope with the beer and travel money in it, there was no box of cash with the beer and travel money that is due, so it has not been sent yet.

Any attempt to try to make me think that some support in another form is that debt, is an attempt at a delusion to knock me off my stand.

I am due beer and travel money, and many experiences, and the world should be more just and compassionate. The rest is great stuff to be shared with as many people as can be.

Even if it was a letter that only one person might read.

Valerie's Letter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0lYIBjCpco

And that video has nothing to do with something like some social context of someones orientation, it is however about justice and compassion, and in that, also about social context of someones orientation.




Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs

Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo

Bonnie Raitt - Nick Of Time
http://www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?MovieID=407128

Dire Straits - Walk of Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZxVC0GB838


Constantine - Bring me to life (Evanescence)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx8d3K_hngw

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JohnnyLib2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 06:14 PM
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4. It's important to say:

they didn't.
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 06:21 PM
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5. Surely we would be like a second Canada?
We would probably have universal health care, but I-95 would probably be called something like the "Prince of Wales Highway".
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 07:14 PM
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6. if my aunt had nads she'd be my uncle
Edited on Thu Jun-16-11 07:15 PM by frylock
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 08:59 AM
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7. Paul Revere could have just TWEETED the British a picture of his gun and bells.
:evilgrin:
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 10:04 AM
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8. Sure. Because EVERYBODY texts pics of their junk on Twitter.
Bullshit. Not everybody is that narcissistic or stupid.

Bake
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 10:11 AM
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9. 6 percent of adults 18 and older have sent a sexually suggestive, nude or nearly nude image
Regardless of your feelings about Anthony Weiner and his sexting story, the reality is that he’s hardly alone out there. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 6 percent of adults 18 and older have sent a sexually suggestive, nude or nearly nude image to someone else by text.

http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/06/16/6874774-your-naughty-pictures-are-loose-on-the-web-now-what

maybe people ought to not delude themselves that "everyone" does it.
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