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The New Hobbit Hole
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Corin Stormhands
LOL! OK Corin!
But I still dont mundertand.
To: 2Jedismom
I still like the life-sized Bin Laden targets that a co-worker had ordered to take to the firing range.
To: Corin Stormhands; JenB
Sigh. Gerald Ford '76. Jen wasn't even born then, Corin! I was - I was about four weeks old.
Feel better? ;-)
To: RosieCotton
Stop it! You're making my teeth hurt...
To: HairOfTheDog
My friend is America's Shire. Some on FR would call her part of the 'sheeple'. Some don't know and don't want to know. They don't want to be bothered with the messy business of remaining free. They treat their freedom like they do their sausage, they love having it, they just don't want to see the process of making it!
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
My first presidential vote was for Reagan's re-election in '84. I was similarly excited...My first presidential vote was for Goldwater for President. They told me that if I voted for Goldwater we would soon be in a land war in Asia. And they were correct!
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
LOL! ;^)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
And they were correct! So, that was all your fault?? ;)
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
My first presidential vote was for Reagan's re-election in '84. I was similarly excited....I'm sitting here trying to remember my first Presidential vote. I think they lowered the Federal voting age to 18 just before I got to that age. If that's the case, my first vote would have been when I was 19, in 1972, for Nixon. Say what you will about Tricky Dick, I shudder to think what this nation would look like today if McGovern had been elected President during that time in our history!
To: htur_75
The mediots just didn't look close enough. They were busy looking for a blatant reaction and didn't look at his eyes. His eyes are so expressive.As soon as that reading session was finished, the reporters started peppering him with questions. He pointedly told them, "I'll answer those questions when we get out of here". He didn't want to subject the kids to the horror that was unfolding. There is tape of his first comments while still at that school, and the staff must have been told what had happened because the folks behind him are just stone faced and register no shock during his remarks.
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
So, that was all your fault?? ;)Yep, when I am not Saddam Insane, I am Ho Chi Minh.
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
They told me that if I voted for Goldwater we would soon be in a land war in Asia. And they were correct!They just didn't quite get it right about WHO would get it started, did they?
To: SuziQ
Some on FR would undoubtedly call her part of the 'sheeple'. She and I went to the same preschool, went all through school together, had a falling out for a few years over a man, and found each other again in college.
I don't personally give a hoot whether she pays attention to politics or national events. She does her part. She works (parole officer), makes good money, spends it freely and contributes to the economy. She doesn't know anything about national politics, but she is one of the few people I know who knows anything about who the best local judges are come election time. She likes baseball... The country has room for her. We don't all have to be political junkies. In fact, a Republic is kindof set up so that we don't have to know!
To: HairOfTheDog
In fact, a Republic is kindof set up so that we don't have to know!< tinfoil >
It's a government plot, I tell you! What did the government know and when did they know it?
< /tinfoil >
To: Overtaxed
Now you are just being silly. The government knows everything, and you only know what we feel you need to know!
To: HairOfTheDog
< tinfoil >
To: HairOfTheDog
but she is one of the few people I know who knows anything about who the best local judges are come election time. She DOES pay attention, she just pays attention to different things! Not being from this area, I have to rely on the 'locals' to give me info on who they consider suitable for the town and county positions, but I'm probably more informed than many locals on national stuff. I guess it all depends on where your own interests lie.
To: SuziQ; Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Mine was also for Nixon, but I forget who he was running against at the time. It wasn't Kennedy. Who was he running against, LCS?
At them time, I thought of myself as a liberal, but apparently couldn't persuade myself to vote for one.
To: Sam Cree
Mine was also for Nixon, but I forget who he was running against at the time. It wasn't Kennedy. Who was he running against, LCS? Ooo, Ooo, I can answer that one.
1960: JFK defeated Richard Nixon
1964: LBJ defeated Barry Goldwater (I campaigned for Goldwater at age 6)
1968: Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey
1972: Richard Nixon defeated George McGovern
1976: Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford (my first vote)
To: SuziQ
It does depend on your interests. As a Parole Officer, she has to testify in court alot, and so she knows which judges and which prosecutors are any good, at least from her perspective, which is usually based on whether they do what she recommends in her reports, of course. ;~D
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