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30.01.2011, 17:25
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed!
I'm telling you, cliches & idioms! cliches & idioms:
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing!
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30.01.2011, 17:43
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed!
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"...
Every nation hides some skeletons in the closet - thats the fact of the humanity.
On a serious note though, how to convince the cynical moron who asks such question, to shove it up his @ss. Just one at the time...
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30.01.2011, 18:49
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | Read history, learn history, even love history, but don't negate an entire country's current presence for something that may have happened generations ago. Far more important is whether they have done something about the offending practice and what they are doing now. | | | | | You make an excellent point Colonel...
Except, I'll never forgive Americans for having elected GWB. TWICE | 
30.01.2011, 18:55
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| | | Quote: | |  | | | You make an excellent point Colonel...
Except, I'll never forgive Americans for having elected GWB. TWICE  | | | | | Technically once. 2000 was a judicial appointment.
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30.01.2011, 19:08
| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | Technically once. 2000 was a judicial appointment. | | | | | Same difference.
They went on to elect Derek Obama, anyway, so Dino's point still stands. | 
30.01.2011, 20:03
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | You make an excellent point Colonel...
Except, I'll never forgive Americans for having elected GWB. TWICE  | | | | |
Please don't do that! You can't lump everyone from a certain country into one bucket. We are a very diverse group of people with distinct differences from every area of the US. Not everyone supports all the decisions made by the gov. in the present or the past. Not everyone voted for GWB. I am an independent voter, and I vote for the person not the party! I want what is best for all....
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30.01.2011, 20:08
| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | Please don't do that! You can't lump everyone from a certain country into one bucket. | | | | | Of course you can!
Everybody knows that Americans are all gun-totin', bible-bashin', trailer-dwellin', wad-spittin', pick-up-truck-drivin', republican-votin' rednecks.
Especially the ones in Georgia. They're the worst!
I seen it on the telly.
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30.01.2011, 20:13
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: |  | | | Especially the ones in New England. They're the worst! | | | | | Yep, being originally from NE, I'd have to agree.
But, being now from the only Swiss canton named after an Irish dude (somehow very fitting), I can no longer agree!
Tom
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30.01.2011, 20:15
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: |  | | | Of course you can!
Everybody knows that Americans are all gun-totin', bible-bashin', trailer-dwellin', wad-spittin', pick-up-truck-drivin', republican-votin' rednecks.
Especially the ones in Georgia. They're the worst!
I seen it on the telly. | | | | |
You are very funny!!! I have lived in the South all my life, and I have never touched a gun, or lived in a trailer. I do drive an SUV ( for saftey on the roads in Atlanta), and I do go to church. I promise I would never beat you with a bible.
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30.01.2011, 20:20
| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | But, being now from the only Swiss canton named after an Irish dude (somehow very fitting), I can no longer agree!  | | | | | I'd always taken Basel to be more of an English name than an Irish one | Quote: | |  | | | I promise I would never beat you with a bible. | | | | | You don't beat someone with a bible, you give them an almighty belt with it, hence the name - Bible Belt
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30.01.2011, 20:29
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | I'd always taken Basel to be more of an English name than an Irish one 
You don't beat someone with a bible, you give them an almighty belt with it, hence the name - Bible Belt | | | | |
I didn't mean physically beat, but verbally pushy.
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30.01.2011, 20:30
| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | I didn't mean physically beat, but verbally pushy. | | | | | Oh, you disappoint me.
You should see my Midwestern Baptist wife in action... | This user would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
30.01.2011, 21:24
| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | Yep, being originally from NE, I'd have to agree. 
But, being now from the only Swiss canton named after an Irish dude (somehow very fitting), I can no longer agree! 
Tom | | | | | I am originally from NE too - a very nice Canton. | The following 2 users would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
30.01.2011, 21:41
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | Okay, so today again I was accosted by somebody on the Internet (a UK politician this time) ... | | | | | Who let the newt lover onto the web?
Blood of the oppressed - unreconstructed marxist claptrap.
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30.01.2011, 22:46
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | You make an excellent point Colonel...
Except, I'll never forgive Americans for having elected GWB. TWICE  | | | | |
Yeah well, you guys gave us Beckham so we'll just have to call it even.
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30.01.2011, 22:47
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | Yeah well, you guys gave us Beckham so we'll just have to call it even. | | | | | ^ He's right, you know.
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30.01.2011, 22:51
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | Yeah well, you guys gave us Beckham so we'll just have to call it even. | | | | | As long as you keep Piers Morgan for ever, we are quits .... | The following 4 users would like to thank Hedgehog of death for this useful post: | | 
30.01.2011, 22:54
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | As long as you keep Piers Morgan for ever, we are quits .... | | | | | You know though, I just don't think that us English are as good at getting rid of undesirables by handing them off to the colonies as we used to be but Piers Morgan was an excellent move! | This user would like to thank colinwheeler for this useful post: | | 
30.01.2011, 22:56
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | As long as you keep Piers Morgan for ever, we are quits .... | | | | | haha, yeah I tried watching him in an interview with Howard Stern and I couldn't watch more than 5 min. He pretty much spells the death of CNN especially since he is being touted as the replacement for Larry King. I think Cheney should take Piers out on one of his turkey hunting trips for an interview.
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30.01.2011, 23:22
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| | Re: Defending the country built on the blood of the oppressed! | Quote: | |  | | | As long as you keep Piers Morgan for ever, we are quits .... | | | | | You might have to click on the picture to get the full effect...
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