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See five posts above...
BTW - enslavement of both US and others.
Bowser
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8/22/2007 9:19:34 PM
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You want to call a puppet state such as Iraq "free"?
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Bush the Child Killer
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azstrummer
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8/21/2007 9:16:21 PM
Interesting article
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azstrummer
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8/28/2007 7:23:27 PM
I've watched this discussion...
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/24/2007 9:19:16 PM
On safety nets
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TB
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8/24/2007 9:34:38 PM
re: On safety nets
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/25/2007 4:46:16 AM
Post-Castro Cuba
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Dr. Capitalism
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8/28/2007 1:39:48 PM
Much of what you say is happening now, with our wonderful private system.
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Mary Anne
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8/25/2007 12:36:52 PM
Not that much.
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TB
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8/25/2007 6:46:43 PM
Don't lose track of my original point
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TB
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8/25/2007 7:21:02 PM
Motivation
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azstrummer
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8/26/2007 6:08:15 AM
Man did you hit the nail on the head there!
(n/t)
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Lindy
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8/26/2007 3:56:43 PM
re: Motivation
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TB
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8/26/2007 7:00:38 AM
So your contention should be then
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azstrummer
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8/26/2007 4:56:24 PM
Bingo!
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/26/2007 8:07:14 AM
You can pretty much assume
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azstrummer
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8/26/2007 5:05:12 PM
correction
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Mary Anne
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8/25/2007 12:43:03 PM
Looking at it more closely, it may be mostly about the money
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TB
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8/23/2007 6:39:57 PM
Demonization as an "Art" form
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The Silent Majority
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8/23/2007 4:12:05 PM
"in-utero, ex-utero, what's the difference.."
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Lindy
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8/23/2007 6:28:32 PM
re: Demonization as an "Art" form
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azstrummer
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8/23/2007 4:38:27 PM
You guys are all missing the point about Nationalized health care.
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ER
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8/23/2007 2:45:06 PM
Insightful, but...
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McFly
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8/23/2007 6:08:05 PM
Nice judo move...
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TB
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8/23/2007 5:45:21 PM
My problem is it won't cover dentistry...
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TAFKASE
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8/23/2007 9:51:42 PM
Leapin' lizard, crouching kitty.
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ER
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8/23/2007 6:54:32 PM
re: Leapin' lizard, crouching kitty.
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TB
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8/23/2007 7:14:45 PM
Atlanta's burning, Miz Scarlett
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ER
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8/23/2007 7:58:35 PM
re: Atlanta's burning, Miz Scarlett
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TB
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8/23/2007 11:26:52 PM
re: Atlanta's burning, Miz Scarlett
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ER
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8/24/2007 12:36:28 AM
re: Atlanta's burning, Miz Scarlett
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TB
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8/24/2007 3:27:48 AM
Cripe Tom, would you respond to the person and not the issue
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azstrummer
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8/24/2007 4:49:20 AM
What do you want?
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TB
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8/24/2007 5:20:40 AM
Fake liberal sympathy
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azstrummer
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8/24/2007 2:34:46 PM
You really don't understand the point, do you?
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TB
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8/24/2007 6:24:47 PM
No I don't understand you.
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azstrummer
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8/24/2007 7:33:28 PM
And on jugular veins...
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TB
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8/24/2007 9:20:12 PM
re: No I don't understand you.
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TB
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8/24/2007 8:10:43 PM
re: Atlanta's burning, Miz Scarlett
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Lindy
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8/23/2007 10:40:29 PM
THAT is a fascinating point.
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Bowser
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8/23/2007 4:15:02 PM
re: Bush the Child Killer
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TB
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8/21/2007 11:04:54 PM
The issue is no health care
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azstrummer
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8/23/2007 1:13:54 AM
"Cold and calculating heart." Actually, I use my brain.
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TB
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8/23/2007 4:26:43 AM
Inadequate
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Robert
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8/23/2007 5:50:19 PM
Oh, Lord...
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TB
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8/23/2007 6:06:50 PM
Okay, maybe if I ignore all the foundational stuff...
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TB
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8/23/2007 6:24:32 PM
re: Okay, maybe if I ignore all the foundational stuff...
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Robert
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8/23/2007 10:26:46 PM
Foundations
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TB
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8/23/2007 11:57:25 PM
"This argument isn't going to be settled here."
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Robert
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8/24/2007 5:09:29 PM
re: Foundations
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TB
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8/24/2007 7:02:33 PM
Flightless bumblebees
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Robert
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8/28/2007 5:23:33 PM
Bumblebees. Again.
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TB
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8/28/2007 7:20:58 PM
"your thinking processes aren't that much different from Lindy's. "
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Lindy
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8/29/2007 4:45:17 PM
What hit me in your statement
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azstrummer
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8/24/2007 7:47:31 PM
And just curious...
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TB
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8/24/2007 7:05:10 PM
No healthcare is "free"
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Lindy
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8/23/2007 3:07:47 PM
Facts and figures
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azstrummer
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8/23/2007 4:53:17 AM
re: Facts and figures
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TB
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8/23/2007 5:39:07 AM
Let's see
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azstrummer
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8/23/2007 12:25:01 PM
re: Let's see
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TB
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8/23/2007 5:52:26 PM
Still...
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McFly
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8/23/2007 2:26:06 PM
Not perfect
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azstrummer
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8/23/2007 4:31:34 PM
Not by any stretch
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McFly
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8/23/2007 5:16:08 PM
Well said
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azstrummer
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8/23/2007 8:13:09 PM
"You've a cold and calculating heart there..........."
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Lindy
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8/23/2007 3:44:37 AM
"As the Governor of Oregon said..."
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TB
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8/21/2007 11:06:30 PM
And the problem with that is?
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Bowser
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8/22/2007 3:47:26 AM
re: And the problem with that is?
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TB
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8/22/2007 5:19:58 AM
Universal Health Care - "enslaving the population to the State."????
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Bowser
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8/22/2007 3:50:43 PM
Given your inability to think in the abstract, you're probably right.
(n/t)
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TB
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8/22/2007 4:26:29 PM
You are absolutely correct. Plagued me all my life.
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Bowser
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8/23/2007 2:47:16 AM
For the rest of you...
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TB
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8/22/2007 4:37:36 PM
Reality
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Bowser
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8/22/2007 6:00:43 PM
Let me see if I'm following you...
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TB
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8/22/2007 7:13:14 PM
No. The "security" you Conservatives seek is enslavement.
(n/t)
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Bowser the Brief
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8/22/2007 8:09:53 PM
See five posts above...
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TB
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8/22/2007 8:26:42 PM
BTW - enslavement of both US and others.
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Bowser
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8/22/2007 9:19:34 PM
Iraq is still a lot more free than it used to be.
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TB
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8/23/2007 3:35:22 AM
160,000 foreign troops not subject to Iraqi law. 80,000 mercenaries.
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Bowser
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8/23/2007 4:06:51 AM
They're specialized "terrorists"
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Lindy
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8/23/2007 3:09:22 PM
SCHIP?
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Lindy
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8/21/2007 10:45:25 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.