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Woo hoo!! Our 3rd QTR '09 FReepathon is Underway!! Thread XIII
Click here to pledge your support ^ | August 10, 2009 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 08/10/2009 10:51:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Wow!

Good lookin’ dog there!


21 posted on 08/10/2009 5:43:14 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: Brad's Gramma

Yeah....if you like dogs......


22 posted on 08/10/2009 5:47:30 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Yeah. They’re OK.

I guess.

:)


23 posted on 08/10/2009 5:49:03 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Yeah....if you like dogs......

Doesn't everybody love dogs?


24 posted on 08/10/2009 5:52:48 PM PDT by WVKayaker (God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.-D.Webster)
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To: Brad's Gramma

Why do we send kittens after trolls?

Wouldn’t Bowser make a bigger impact??


25 posted on 08/10/2009 5:53:53 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
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To: WVKayaker




PLEASE DONATE


SO THIS SHIVERING PATHETIC SNIVELING
SHADOW OF A DOG CAN GET OUT OF OUR SIGHT!




26 posted on 08/10/2009 5:54:14 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Haven’t a clue why kittens are used.......

To me, yep, Bowser WOULD have more of an.....impact...


27 posted on 08/10/2009 5:54:56 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: WVKayaker

Is that YOUR doggy???


28 posted on 08/10/2009 5:55:39 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: Brad's Gramma

Isn’t that the same dog??


29 posted on 08/10/2009 5:55:51 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The same dog as what?


30 posted on 08/10/2009 5:59:46 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: Brad's Gramma

Same as the one in post 19.......


31 posted on 08/10/2009 6:01:27 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Even ET gave to Free Republic!

32 posted on 08/10/2009 6:01:48 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

They sure LOOK different! Hmmmmmmmm......


33 posted on 08/10/2009 6:03:28 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: Brad's Gramma

Sure...One has a hat.....


34 posted on 08/10/2009 6:04:32 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

That color just does NOT work with the skin tone, does it.

:)


35 posted on 08/10/2009 6:06:01 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (BG x 2 (and a heartbeat was heard today....))
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To: Brad's Gramma

Any idea how many new monthlies we have for the August contest??? I’ve so busy with everything else the past week.....


36 posted on 08/10/2009 6:20:34 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
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Hellooooooooo?????????


37 posted on 08/10/2009 7:26:50 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
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To: Jim Robinson; Brad's Gramma; Fiddlstix; All


The American Crisis
by
Thomas Paine
December 23, 1776


THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

Whether the independence of the continent was declared too soon, or delayed too long, I will not now enter into as an argument; my own simple opinion is, that had it been eight months earlier, it would have been much better.

We did not make a proper use of last winter, neither could we, while we were in a dependent state. However, the fault, if it were one, was all our own [NOTE]; we have none to blame but ourselves. But no great deal is lost yet.

All that Howe has been doing for this month past, is rather a ravage than a conquest, which the spirit of the Jerseys, a year ago, would have quickly repulsed, and which time and a little resolution will soon recover.

I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent.

Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils; and as I do not, I cannot see on what grounds the king of Britain can look up to heaven for help against us: a common murderer, a highwayman, or a house-breaker, has as good a pretence as he.

'Tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country. All nations and ages have been subject to them.

Britain has trembled like an ague at the report of a French fleet of flat-bottomed boats; and in the fourteenth [fifteenth] century the whole English army, after ravaging the kingdom of France, was driven back like men petrified with fear; and this brave exploit was performed by a few broken forces collected and headed by a woman, Joan of Arc.

Would that heaven might inspire some Jersey maid to spirit up her countrymen, and save her fair fellow sufferers from ravage and ravishment! Yet panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them, and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstones of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered.

In fact, they have the same effect on secret traitors, which an imaginary apparition would have upon a private murderer. They sift out the hidden thoughts of man, and hold them up in public to the world.

Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head, that shall penitentially solemnize with curses the day on which Howe arrived upon the Delaware ... continues The American Crisis by Thomas Paine


[NOTE]
The Crisis, Footnote 1

The present winter is worth an age, if rightly employed; but, if lost or neglected, the whole continent will partake of the evil; and there is no punishment that man does not deserve, be he who, or what, or where he will, that may be the means of sacrificing a season so precious and useful.


Note from bd476: Some paragraph formatting has been added for emphasis.

The American Crisis by Thomas Paine

38 posted on 08/10/2009 8:02:41 PM PDT by bd476
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To: bd476

WOW !


39 posted on 08/10/2009 8:07:16 PM PDT by sonic109
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To: All
Click it!

40 posted on 08/10/2009 8:43:46 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
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