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| 8/21/2003
| Andrew Orlowski
Posted on 08/21/2003 9:44:06 AM PDT by ZeitgeistSurfer
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To: swarthyguy
"You need two?" I guess it would depend on the size of the object in question...
Further, I call dibs on helping Ann coulter and/or Sandra Bullock when and if they need help in finding theirs!
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:14:50 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
To: theDentist
Actually I remember reading that Canucks are heading down south for dentistry work cause they have to spend too long for crappy nationalized, government sponsored work. So, I guess they are outsourcing their uh tooth jobs to us!
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:16:14 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(Reagan waz best, but Dubya's close!)
To: Mad Dawgg
Would someone please tell me what's attractive about Ann Coulter? Is it what he spouts? Is it that she needs a bridle? What?
To: warchild9; harpseal
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:20:40 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(Reagan waz best, but Dubya's close!)
To: warchild9
Q: Would someone please tell me what's attractive about Ann Coulter.
A:Blonde, slim, great hair, great figure, great mind, great views.
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:21:53 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(Reagan waz best, but Dubya's close!)
To: warchild9
"Is it that she needs a bridle?" Hmmm can't see that one in my mind's eye...
Instead, toss in a pair of thigh-high black leather boots and a riding crop.... well now that is a definite ye haaaaa!
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:24:06 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
To: Tokhtamish
Obviously you did not grow up in a blue collar neighborhood in the industrial Northeast in the 60's. Obviously you don't know anyone who did. Obviously you did not have aunts and uncles who were blue collar working class in the 60's. Obviously you have never driven through the run down neighborhoods of Northern cities, neighborhoods that you can clearly see were nice 40 years ago but whose economic base was destroyed by deindustrialization. Oh, I've seen them. But they definitely weren't "destroyed" by deindustrialization. I'm sorry you blame the loss of faith in Jesus Christ in the black communities on economics. That might be part of the overall problem.
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:24:11 PM PDT
by
Texas_Dawg
(I will not rest until every "little man" is destroyed.)
To: Cronos
Fake blonde, skinny as a rail, and the usual "Clinton and media bad! Bad!" that we can hear from a dozen others.
I mean, like, Raquel Welch...Ann Coulter. Huh?
To: ZeitgeistSurfer
Now that skilled engineering jobs are being transferred offshore, the middle class is in the firing line, and this poses a very real crisis for a large and not-entirely unimportant section of society. Which is why the country must be totally, completely, absolutely disarmed. Hence, the relentless erosion of the Second Amendment by Democrats and Republicans alike.
It's dry, academic stuff to be sure. But when jobs are being lost on such an extraordinary scale, scarcely reported, is there a politician bold enough even to raise the issue?
No. There's too much corporate money in it for both sides to do little more than roll over, play dead, and sell out the very citizens they are sworn to serve.
To: y2k_free_radical
If this many conservatives are P.O.'ed about this ,how will BUSH carry the middle ground independents You make the mistake of assuming that these are conservatives.
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:26:34 PM PDT
by
Texas_Dawg
(I will not rest until every "little man" is destroyed.)
To: ZeitgeistSurfer
My DH's last day is Sept 30 ... resumes going out the door now.
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:30:40 PM PDT
by
zeaal
To: lelio
If you don't mind worshipping a cow, wondering what the quality of your water is, and if Pakistan is going to drop a nuke on you, I hear India is hiring. That's the good news. The bads new is they're not hiring Americans.
To: Texas_Dawg
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:34:21 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(Reagan waz best, but Dubya's close!)
To: Cronos
And another piece of non doom and gloom news Hints of optimism point to (economic) rebound It's all a big government lie. We're all doomed, especially urban union blacks.
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:35:28 PM PDT
by
Texas_Dawg
(I will not rest until every "little man" is destroyed.)
To: swarthyguy
>>...how many Indians have you known who can find their ass with both hands? >Most people find it with one hand.
I've heard that some people stick one hand in "a hole in the ground" (for comparison), while the other hand is free to search.
To: searchandrecovery
Strange tag: "America will not exist in 25 years". What's gonna be there then? Kalifornistan, Texania and the unlit east?
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:40:18 PM PDT
by
Cronos
(Reagan waz best, but Dubya's close!)
To: Texas_Dawg
How silly you are.
Economics has everything to do with how you view the world. You, for instance, talk like a gated community. Yours is the fat cat conservatism of a 1935 Liberty Leaguer, of offshore money. A sure fire election day loser in hard times.
To: lelio
With 6.5% inflation over 40 years $2018 becomes $26974. To be 2.5x as bad, inflation will only have to creep up to 8.6% for the 1960 salary of $2k to be worth $54k. But that's really mental masturbation over compound interest. The real world is a lot different.
True, but the inflation rate is a terrible way to measure that because it does not account for substitution. A better way is via the CPI. Using the CPI inflation calculator you can see that $1 in 1960 was the equivalent of $6.08 in 2002. So whereas per capita take-home income is 12 times higher today, the dollar has only lost 6 times its value. (Again, not to mention all the amazing technologies in education, travel, entertainment, etc. that we have today that we didn't have then.)
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:48:16 PM PDT
by
Texas_Dawg
(I will not rest until every "little man" is destroyed.)
To: Texas_Dawg
You make the mistake of assuming that these are conservatives.
And they voted for Bush, putting him in office by 500 votes. What does he think the outcome will be in '04 with this base looking to the other side for answers?
One can say "they're just nuts thinking the dems can fix this" Well maybe they are. But do their reasons matter? No, just the single vote does.
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:51:20 PM PDT
by
lelio
To: Tokhtamish
Economics has everything to do with how you view the world. You, for instance, talk like a gated community. Yours is the fat cat conservatism of a 1935 Liberty Leaguer, of offshore money. A sure fire election day loser in hard times. Are we talking economic efficacy of tariffs and trade protectionism or political expediency? Two very different topics. I understand why Bush has passed so many trade protection and subsidy measures. Pure politics, and if he judges that necessary, fine. Funny though that even though he has been much more economically in line with you on trade, your side of this is the one screaming at him and that hates him, yet my side generally supports him. Then again, my side doesn't normally look to cut off its nose to spite its face like the Buchanan Brigade and its sympathizers.
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posted on
08/21/2003 12:51:32 PM PDT
by
Texas_Dawg
(I will not rest until every "little man" is destroyed.)
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