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To: Adder
Over three million of the Irish starved in the famine years.

The only good thing to result from it is that many of those great-hearted, productive, and disputatious people came here to America and helped build this great nation.

Gallagher

9 posted on 09/16/2008 3:48:48 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine
Indeed, many of my ancestors were famine emigrants.


10 posted on 09/16/2008 4:03:47 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Peregrine, patron saint of cancer patients, pray for us.)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Ironic that it was the fanatical adherence to free-market capitalism that led to the disaster in the first place....


11 posted on 09/16/2008 4:48:34 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Jimmy Valentine

I am well aware of that...it was awful, horrendous and pathetic all at once and yes it launched a great immigration for which we are thankful. I think thats my bona fides....which should go without saying at all.

However, trying to have people arrested for singing a line in a song, launching “official” protests is ridiculous in the extreme. Its over...move on.

ALL speech is free or no speech is free.

[And I feel the same way about folks who get their panties in a bunch here over songs like “Dixie”.]


22 posted on 09/16/2008 7:37:35 AM PDT by Adder (typical bitter white person)
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