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Free Lady Liberty - most idiotic petition of the year???
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Posted on 11/16/2006 4:44:02 PM PST by EveningStar

I don't care how you feel about illegal immigration. This has got to be one of the stupidest, most embarrassing petitions in a long time! :(

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: emmalazarus; freeladyliberty; illegalimmigration; ladyliberty; petition; statureofliberty; thenewcolossus
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To: abishai; fanfan

I know! LOL! :)


21 posted on 11/16/2006 5:38:01 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: fanfan

I had to look it up. I'd forgotten.


22 posted on 11/16/2006 5:38:47 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: abishai
Read some of them. They're hilarious.

Some of the comments are hilarious, and some are just good ole' American Strength, which I admire.

23 posted on 11/16/2006 5:40:38 PM PST by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: EveningStar

Bring us your tired, your poor, your emboldened masses infected with TB... The wretched refuse of all other shores... Send these, who work the system, no matter the cost to me... I empty my pockets and open my doors!"


24 posted on 11/16/2006 5:49:54 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: EveningStar

Too stupid for words. Worse, at least one FReeper has supported it. Now that's scary.


25 posted on 11/16/2006 5:51:49 PM PST by Melas (Offending stupid people since 1963)
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To: All

could somebody post some of them.

For some reason they don't show for me.


26 posted on 11/16/2006 5:51:57 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: EveningStar

David Caulkett needs to find something else to worry about.

He probably won't have a had time.


27 posted on 11/16/2006 5:52:37 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Melas

Some of those comments on that petition are hysterical. :)


28 posted on 11/16/2006 5:53:56 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: fanfan
Why did the French give you that statue, anyway?

Because Egypt turned down the idea.

Bartholdi had traveled to Egypt in 1856 to see the pyramids and the Sphinx. Their grand scale awed him and confirmed his own predilection for statues of colossal size. He returned to the land of the Nile in 1869, to attend the opening of the Suez Canal. Bartholdi hoped to convince the then ruler of Egypt, Ismail Pasha, to commission the Alsatian to create a monument in the form of a giant peasant woman holding aloft a torch, its theme to be "Progress" or "Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia." This statue would be twice the size of the Sphinx and stand beside the entrance to the canal, serving the double purpose of monument and lighthouse. The pasha rejected the idea, and Bartholdi returned to France to rekindle the American proposal.

So what does New York and Port Said, Egypt have in common? --   Originally, American's very own statue of Liberty was to be placed not in New York but at Port Said.  The Statue of Liberty was really inspired by the huge statues at Abu Simbel.  Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the statue designed the American Lady of Liberty as 'Egypt carrying the light of Asia'.  However, the Khedive Ismail decided that the project was too expensive, so the 'Light of Asia' was sent to the US instead, where she became the Statue of Liberty.

29 posted on 11/16/2006 6:03:25 PM PST by DumpsterDiver
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To: EveningStar

So I saw. Looks like the majority of signatories are dumber than a box of rocks. Absolutely hillarious. What would be best would be for this petition to be delivered to congress as promised, but with the comments intact so that everyone with common sense will jump back and go, "whooaaaa"


30 posted on 11/16/2006 6:13:46 PM PST by Melas (Offending stupid people since 1963)
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To: EveningStar

So I saw. Looks like the majority of signatories are dumber than a box of rocks. Absolutely hillarious. What would be best would be for this petition to be delivered to congress as promised, but with the comments intact so that everyone with common sense will jump back and go, "whooaaaa"


31 posted on 11/16/2006 6:13:47 PM PST by Melas (Offending stupid people since 1963)
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somebody please post a few here:


32 posted on 11/16/2006 6:17:23 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

We'll need to find some that are rated "G" first. :)


33 posted on 11/16/2006 6:20:40 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

OH!


34 posted on 11/16/2006 6:21:17 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: EveningStar

Makes sense to me


35 posted on 11/16/2006 6:42:45 PM PST by rmlew (Having slit their throats may the conservatives who voted for Casey choke slowly on their blood.)
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To: EveningStar

Here are some gems.....

35. Amanda Carlson No one should have the right to keep any woman in bondage we all should be free of male shovanism

73. Dr. Aas I come from India bringing the science of poop transplants, and this is the welcome I get?!

82. I.P. Daily Have you seen the yellow river?

85. Juan Valdez Hey gringo! Who needs your stinking statue anyway? Your President George W. Bush and his buddies in U.S. Corporate industry are outsourcing all of your jobs to our countries anyway. Thanks for the jobs, gringos! Enjoy your unemployment!

149. Captain America Get a life you looser a** *@#(%. You had dirt poor white trash ancestors too.

184. Ima Idiot Who's going to pick your fruits and veggies, make your beds in Hotels, do you lawn, and repair your roof for half the cost?

186. Amgwana Kickbooty Send everry1 with forren blood home!!!!!!!!!!!

191. Chief Joseph Shut down all immigration retroactive to 1620. It hasn't worked out. America for real Americans!

192. Jose Guitterez Um I think I got to the wrong petition. Sorry!

193. Toby Keith Any cute guys here tonight?

194. Ivan Yakenhoff Oops! I was looking for the masturbation petiton....wait, I think this is it!

204. I can read! Bunch of ignorant fools who sign this redneck document!


36 posted on 11/16/2006 6:43:23 PM PST by abishai (And Abishai...said to the king, "let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.")
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To: longtermmemmory

See post 36


37 posted on 11/16/2006 6:51:01 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

I like the comment about playing Hit the Road, Jack.


38 posted on 11/17/2006 9:12:39 AM PST by twonie (Just because there are fewer of us don't mean we are wrong.)
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