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bluering
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Santa Clara, CA
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even in the most recent case when blurring claimed US citizens existed in 1773. The saddest part is they don't even climb
What??? We gained independance in 1776, when did I claim otherwise?
I climb all the time too.
Wes is full of crap or deviously misleading. I'm used to this shit!
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You can always count on skippy and blurring to disappear for a few pages when they get called out on their bullshit and/or have their asses handed to them.
WTF are you talking about as#@&%e??? I answered LG's questions respectfully, even though I hate that kind of crap.
It's usually YOU who ducks away when you are disproven of your 'facts'.
You also have the typical tendency to change subjects or divert them when you are proven to be incorrect.
But you'll never admit when you're wrong because you're a snob and an as#@&%e.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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A Most excellent post War.
Posted by sandstone conglomerate
Nov 6, 2011 - 06:10am PT
My mom is in dire financial straits due to losing 3/5ths of her retirement through a f*#kup by AIG. She stands to lose her house at 65 yrs of age, a house she's had for 40 some years. AIG gets a big bailout, why not her? She wasn't gambling with her money, nevertheless, she suffers the consequences for someone else's actions. Saying the people are to blame for the banks' predatory mortgage practices is bullsh#t. Too bad the CEO of AIG doesn't drop dead from a brain anyeurism or something. I'd turn the LASD heatray on him, extra-crispy.
Sandstone I am so sorry for your Mom's unfortunate plight, She is the face of the 99%. She had NOTHING to do with Wall Street excesses and illegalities yet she is beeing made to pay the price of their failure. That is what the OWS is al about. Not dirty lazy hippies looking for handouts for free from the uber rich.
I can't wait for the next talking head Teabaglican't to spout off some imagined inanity about how wrong the OWS protesters are. Or how it's all the fault of the lowly home-buyers and not the Robber Barrons of Wall Street.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Bluering is NOT like skip. I am at odds with a LOT of his politics and world view, and he's an as#@&%e (like many of us here), but he does answer questions, he does listen, he does climb and post TRs, he's NOT an anonymous coward. He deserves WAY more respect than skip.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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You are right Fet.
Other than rabidly intrenched political perspectives Blue is light years ahead of SkipDip.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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BRITISH CITIZENS destroying BRITISH CORPORATE PROPERTY in order to protest preferential treatment of CORPORATIONS over PEOPLE i A very good summary.
I'll add a few details. The Tea Act was specifically levied by Parliament because the British East India Company was in financial trouble. Prior to this, the East India Company had been given trade monopoly over the major ports in the Colonies. So the Tea Act was specifically supporting a private monopoly company which had control of most international commerce in the Colonies.
Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses. A related objective was to undercut the price of tea smuggled into Britain's North American colonies. Also see Churchill's "History of the English Speaking Peoples, Abridged" Chap 39: Quarrel With America for a really good, brief history of the start of the Revolutionary War.
One of the best known smugglers was Thomas Hancock, uncle of John Hancock who was his heir.
There was great diversity of the homelands of the Colonists: England, Germany, Holland, Sweden but they were all British Citizens.
Earlier there was a comment about the Colonists partially rebelling agains the Church Of England.
This is patently not true: London did not make the Church of England official in the colonies—it never sent a bishop—so religious practice became diverse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United_States
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/arianna-talks-economy-jobs_b_1078604.html
Except for the fool George Will taking a nasty swipe at Obama on his second turn around the table, this is a very sensible discussion about the current economic situation as the populace sees it. Even Shrub's former political adviser spoke sanely.
But of course there was no meaningful content. Sorry Christiane Amanpour, you should have stayed with CNN where you could be a real reporter. At which you were VERY good.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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^^^ WINGNUT ALEERT ^^^
BrainWorm not HighTraverse
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Fattrad...Rental properties..? Sounds like a nuisance rather than an investment...RJ
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Cragman...Excellent comparison...RJ
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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yes, excellent
I did not realize we have recently been attacked by the Japanese and had Germany declare war on us.
And if you smoke a reefer, you WILL become a heroin addict
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Jesus would have sided with the 1%
He was a Socialist
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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the perfect owser symbol:
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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This movement is all about selfishness....on both sides.
OWS and/or Tea Party.
OWS wants handouts and wall street wants bail outs.
Tea Party wants to pay no taxes and the government wants all their income.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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The Tea Party defends Socialism.
Those SOBs would never consider giving up their Social Security or Medicare.
Nor would any one of them write a check to the general fund to help pay down the deficit
They are the least patriotic.
They suck off the Nanny State while wanting to pay no taxes to pay for their handouts
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Why am I a miserable example of human life, Jeff?
I own my own company.
I employ 12 people.
I pay my full share of taxes.
I also send an additional annual check to the US General Fund to help what little I can to contribute towards deficit and national debt reduction.
I participate in this Democracy fully, including having joined Volunteers in Service to America in the 1960s as part of President Kennedy's call to ask what I can do for my country.
Why am I a miserable example of human life, Jeff?
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