stepnw1f
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Tue May-09-06 03:59 PM
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Anyone Else Sick of Businesses Using Our Flag |
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for their own personal profit? I too once believed that what was good for business will somehow benefit America as a whole, but not with these huge tax cuts and businesses outsourcing jobs while demanding we bail them out of bankruptcy. I say FUCK em!
Especially gas stations... anyone see the irony in Exxon flying the American flag? What they should fly is the American flag with text saying: for sale right smack dab in the middle.
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izzie
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Tue May-09-06 04:07 PM
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1. Profits seem to be our only business |
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I am sure Bush would sell Barbara if the price was right. And some CEO would figure out how to do it even better and bigger profits with a tax brake along the side.
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EmperorHasNoClothes
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Tue May-09-06 04:07 PM
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Yes, in Springfield, IL there is actually a gas station called, "Freedom Gas" (this may be a chain, I'm not sure). Their logo is a big red, white and blue banner. I avoid them like the plague when I am in that area, just out of my cynical aversion to that sort of fake-patriotism.
Now if their sign said, "Free Gas" - that would be a different story. ;-)
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Tue May-09-06 04:12 PM
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It's a chain, I don't know how big it is. I live in Champaign-Urbana, and they have at least three stations here.
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Tue May-09-06 04:15 PM
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Yup, we got one over in Bloomington-Normal, too. :)
Good to see ya again.
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Tue May-09-06 04:13 PM
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Edited on Tue May-09-06 04:13 PM by uppityperson
edited for spelling error
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Tue May-09-06 04:12 PM
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4. What's even more offensive |
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Is the Dictator-Tot and his misbegotten and ever-dwindling cheering-section of inbred, pig-ignorant, pseudo-patriotic America-haters using our flag as the banner under which they're doing their goddamndest to destroy the nation.
But you raise a very good point.
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Tue May-09-06 04:17 PM
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7. I Have Zero Issue With It. Anyone Can Fly The Flag If They Wan't. |
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Not my place to tell them otherwise.
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Tue May-09-06 06:48 PM
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