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crashfrog

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Message 13 of 105 (88179)
02-23-2004 3:22 PM

Reply to: Message 12 by Percy
02-23-2004 3:16 PM

But the Republican position acknowledges that the dollars attract hoards, from teenagers desperate to escape an untenable home life to welfare scammers intent on making a buck.

What I love is that Americans are more concerned about somebody getting beer money from the guvment than about corporate accounting fraud, outrageous salaries for failure CEO's, and unprecidented Christmas present deregulation for the energy industry.

It's like trying to nab the guy who keeps raiding your snack drawer at work, all the while ignoring the guy who's carrying off your plasma TV at home.

Just my thoughts.

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crashfrog

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Message 18 of 105 (88309)
02-24-2004 3:12 AM

Reply to: Message 17 by ThingsChange
02-24-2004 2:56 AM

If only religious folk on this forum could provide convincing arguments so that everyone could believe and follow the light.

Why? It's not like religious folks are any less likely to be assholes than anybody else.

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crashfrog

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Message 34 of 105 (88401)
02-24-2004 2:38 PM

Reply to: Message 32 by Silent H
02-24-2004 2:20 PM

Not to mention there's that whole thing where apparently it's totally fine to go duck hunting with a sitting member of the highest court in the land who's going to be ruling on a case in which you're a named litigant. Funny, I always thought that was a little shady, but apparently that's just me.

Oops, I guess Holmes hit that already. My bad.

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crashfrog

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Message 39 of 105 (88452)
02-24-2004 6:54 PM

Reply to: Message 38 by Percy
02-24-2004 6:45 PM

Fat Cat Heaven! (Message 15) was a sarcastic jab at Crash with smilie included.

I'm sure I deserved it. I can only plead forbearance for my youthful indignance of the world's injustices.

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Message 82 of 105 (89190)
02-28-2004 1:32 AM

Does that make two people now that Holmes doesn't want to reply to him?

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Message 84 of 105 (89212)
02-28-2004 3:38 AM

Reply to: Message 83 by berberry
02-28-2004 2:08 AM

Given that so many Nader voters in 2000 said they probably would have voted for Gore under other circumstances, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to propose that had Nader not been involved Gore might well be president today.

Honestly, it wouldn't have taken that many. If you assumed that one percent of the Nader voters in Florida had voted for somebody else (instead of not voting at all if Nader wasn't a choice), and that about 60% of those people had voted for Gore instead of one of the other guys, then Gore would have indisputably carried Florida.

Or that's what I heard, anyway. I guess we could dig up the data and do the math ourselves.

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