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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 10:59 AM Original message |
Is this the best we can do? |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. We probably deserve worse than what we are getting |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:00 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. The worse is yet to come |
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Marnieworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:37 AM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Wow Swampy |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:46 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Thanks. Here's one to go with your avatar: |
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Marnieworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 01:16 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Fan freakin tastic! |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:16 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Yes. Nature punishes those with disabilities, especially cognitive |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:23 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Yeah but we all deserve it |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:29 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Personally, I don't hold those who fought to elect someone other |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:35 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. You mean people who failed to elect someone other? |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:39 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. How could we have stopped Nader from running? How could |
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Dora (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
3. For now, yes it is. |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. What else could we expect from societies that are controlled by |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
4. You are correct. Here's my theory on what is transpiring. |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:29 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. ah...but it seems that the religious impulse is inherent in humans, |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 12:26 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. Good thinking. For survival, organisms must be able to |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
7. No. |
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MamaBear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
9. Einstein |
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blue sky at night (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
10. Please..... |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:37 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. yeah, you've got a point there about the news |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
17. Merit is not rewarded. |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 11:56 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. so, "deserve" has nothing to do with it, in other words |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 12:12 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Most people share that goal. |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 12:23 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. yeah, that's what's really maddening about it all |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
24. As a "social animal" we are a monumental flop. |
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Generator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
25. I know it takes so long for humans to truly evolve |
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MadJohnShaft (267 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
26. I think we're doing just fine - it's the War Machine and it's greed |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
27. to answer your question |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
28. We have been enslaved and the beneficiaries have stifled |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
29. Stop insulting "cave men". We're no better than a bunch of |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 02:39 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. "I'll have the roast duck...with the mango salsa." |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 02:46 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Hunh? Not sure I follow your post . . .??? |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 02:51 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. sorry, I thought everyone on the planet had seen that commercial: |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 03:08 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. PC I'm on right now can't play the video. But I noticed your |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
34. Nothing we build can ever let us escape our own human nature. |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 03:10 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. then we must evolve beyond these tendencies, or we must die. |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 04:01 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Or it might possibly just go on like this for several thousand more years. |
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northernsoul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
36. The history of the 21st Century is being written by mental 12 year olds |
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DistressedAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
37. I Though We Were Supposed To Be Reporting For Termination |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-14-06 04:05 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Heh. If I'd been terminated at age 30, though, I would have been spared |
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