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LOL!
SDAI-Tech1
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9/19/2008 10:18:05 PM
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Thanks! That exchange was great.
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Anyone still think unregulated capitalism is a viable financial system?
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Bowser
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9/19/2008 3:33:49 PM
re: unregulated capitalism
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TB
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9/20/2008 12:47:41 AM
Check out deriatives, margin, leverage.
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Bowser
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9/20/2008 1:10:32 AM
We SHOULD have known when Bush said, "NO MORE BAILOUTS."
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Bowser
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9/20/2008 12:08:22 AM
Can't do any worse than the regulated system that created this mess.
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Lee
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9/20/2008 12:01:46 AM
"U.S. bailout is bitter pill for free marketeers"
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Bowser
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9/19/2008 11:49:57 PM
It's perfectly fine if one accepts that the strong make up their own rules, and are allowed to eat alive the weak.
(n/t)
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z
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9/19/2008 5:51:12 PM
re: You just don’t get it
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SteveS
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9/19/2008 4:13:35 PM
Jimmy Carter was the problem. Not greed as McCain says. Former President Jimmy Carter.
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Bowser
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9/19/2008 4:17:57 PM
And I TOLD him at the time, I said "Jimmy, be careful!"
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McFly
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9/19/2008 5:41:59 PM
Not Clinton, not Carter. It was Roosevelt. We were doing just fine under Hoover.
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ER
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9/19/2008 5:39:47 PM
I swear, I swear!
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ER
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9/19/2008 5:46:34 PM
Of course God is a liberal; She has a heart.
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Eri
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9/19/2008 11:51:17 PM
re: You still don't get it
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SteveS
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9/19/2008 4:24:50 PM
He can't.
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TB
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9/19/2008 5:36:24 PM
Hilarious. Kinda reminds me of Bush Senior blaming the LA riots on Lyndon Johnson (who had been dead for 20 years)
(n/t)
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z
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9/19/2008 8:08:44 PM
I am fairly certain that, even as you wrote that, you knew it was a pile of horseshit
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ARRELL
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9/19/2008 6:05:18 PM
"goes back a lot further..."
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McFly
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9/19/2008 5:52:32 PM
Not you too.
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RobVG
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9/20/2008 4:56:06 PM
They do miss Tom.
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/21/2008 6:08:40 AM
"Leftus-vomitus"?
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Lindy
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9/21/2008 4:17:42 PM
It's not just about Bush.
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/21/2008 11:38:11 PM
126 buttmonkeys can't be wrong.
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ER
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9/21/2008 11:16:50 AM
I guess it all comes down to powers of perception.
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/21/2008 10:51:35 PM
Name names
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RobVG
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9/21/2008 3:14:05 PM
"You know I don't mean you."
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Mary Anne
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9/21/2008 5:47:58 PM
At least here, you guy's are battling ghosts.
(n/t)
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RobVG
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9/21/2008 6:10:50 PM
Yes, with all the slimey ectoplasm associated with them.
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Mary Anne
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9/21/2008 6:54:19 PM
You've never called me those names,
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ER
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9/21/2008 4:16:24 PM
Brushes
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RobVG
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9/21/2008 5:55:21 PM
I'm going to let you and MA have the last word.
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ER
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9/21/2008 6:06:54 PM
Did we forget our PMS meds today?
(n/t)
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Eri
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9/21/2008 5:15:02 AM
Because Tom is incapable of joshing those he debates with?
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alcaray
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9/20/2008 11:25:40 PM
Nobody's perfect.
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RobVG
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9/21/2008 3:23:19 PM
Really?
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alcaray
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9/21/2008 7:28:39 PM
I must be blind...
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RobVG
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9/21/2008 8:15:01 PM
No argument there.
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Eri
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9/22/2008 12:13:07 AM
Rob VG...
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Jody
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9/20/2008 7:37:23 PM
re: Actually I think Tom didn’t get run off
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SteveS
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9/21/2008 1:51:24 AM
Yeah, well, the one on the right is hogging all the food!
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Bowser
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9/20/2008 12:09:08 AM
I hereby nominate McFly for "Post of the Year"
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ER
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9/19/2008 6:15:26 PM
I'll second that nomination.
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Eri
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9/19/2008 11:52:50 PM
Thank you...you guys are too kind!
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McFly
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9/20/2008 3:19:43 AM
What is pathetic is that after 8 years and trillions of dollars and after having your face rubbed in it YOU dont get it...
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ARRELL
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9/19/2008 5:35:10 PM
re: Hey RLoser you talking at me again
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SteveS
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9/20/2008 3:33:24 AM
re: having your face rubbed in it.
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TB
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9/19/2008 5:58:25 PM
Who benefits?
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Bowser
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9/19/2008 11:59:31 PM
FDR and the beginning of the end.
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/20/2008 12:35:27 AM
People also tend to forget the political atmosphere of the 1930s.
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Mary Anne
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9/20/2008 4:12:38 AM
re: the political atmosphere of the 1930s.
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TB
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9/21/2008 10:17:54 PM
FDR and GW Bush
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Mary Anne
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9/22/2008 12:06:09 AM
re: FDR and GW Bush
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TB
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9/22/2008 4:05:00 AM
Some more interesting excerpts from the platform:
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Mary Anne
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9/22/2008 4:16:16 AM
You really believe FDR was all about the little guy?
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/22/2008 3:12:24 AM
More than Mr. Bush is, for sure.
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Mary Anne
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9/22/2008 3:56:03 AM
You read the article!
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/20/2008 4:59:42 AM
Example #754
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/21/2008 9:48:34 PM
Why no one responds to you
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Eri
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9/22/2008 12:22:48 AM
Whoa! I figured it out! The Habitale Zone Code!
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SDAi-Tech1
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9/22/2008 3:45:07 AM
You're now reduced to blubbering.
(n/t)
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Eri
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9/22/2008 2:24:22 PM
Seeing patterns where none exist. Interesting symptomology.
(n/t)
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alcaray
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9/22/2008 4:18:10 AM
No capitalization.
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/22/2008 5:35:14 AM
We are actually all the same person...
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alcaray
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9/22/2008 6:24:34 AM
Indeed, fellow traveler!
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ARRELL
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9/22/2008 1:28:04 PM
You have been whoring for them so long that you have just laid back and let them run a tab....
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ARRELL
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9/19/2008 7:02:03 PM
Splash.
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TB
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9/19/2008 7:31:33 PM
LOL!
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/19/2008 10:18:05 PM
Sounds like you're guilty of the same thing you're accusing Tom of doing.
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Lee
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9/19/2008 7:29:30 PM
And Steve?
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TB
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9/19/2008 6:01:03 PM
re: Damn straight it is worth it
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SteveS
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9/19/2008 8:49:19 PM
I enjoy the interchange/discussions/arguments
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Eri
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9/20/2008 12:19:13 AM
That makes no sense at all.
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Lee
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9/20/2008 1:27:57 AM
You make no sense
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Eri
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9/20/2008 3:54:49 AM
re: Damn straight it is worth it
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TB
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9/20/2008 12:02:01 AM
Well...
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Eri
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9/20/2008 12:25:56 AM
Really.
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TB
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9/20/2008 12:55:09 AM
I don't let Mark tell me anything,.
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Eri
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9/20/2008 3:01:56 AM
re: Damn straight it is worth it
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/19/2008 10:29:49 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.