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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 06:47 PM Original message |
AMERICA -- In a Word! (nominate/suggest your own) |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
1. Experiment |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:00 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. Experiment was a word used a lot in the late 1700s, thanks. nt |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. Unsustainable |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. what about AMERICA at its core is unsustainable? (present practices not irreducibly "American") |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:53 PM Response to Reply #13 |
36. Wastefulness |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:13 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. "Exceptionalism" starts to get close to the point |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 09:24 PM Response to Reply #39 |
59. It's a cultural root cause of many symptoms. |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:05 PM Response to Reply #59 |
62. we clearly differ in what constitutes the core of America; it's not weights and measures |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:53 PM Response to Reply #62 |
82. "if there's a way to separate the american ideals from crimes done in their name |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:03 PM Response to Reply #82 |
87. If, as you say, ideals are not separable from "ills" you're right, you're in perma-hell |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
3. Dynamic. |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:07 PM Response to Reply #3 |
19. Thanks, it's especially DYNAMIC when people ACT like Self-Governing rulers, not "doomed" Slaves!! nt |
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rjones2818 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
4. Doomed. |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. What about American IDEALS (not their violation) makes america Doomed? |
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rjones2818 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:10 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. What are 'American Ideals?' |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:22 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Because you doubt it, there's one less person to make it happen |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:29 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. How indeed do we move closer to ideals if folks don't Advocate them? |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
5. Bankrupt nm |
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warren pease (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
6. Dumbfuckistan |
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Captain Angry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
7. Incorporated. |
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Extend a Hand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 06:55 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. great answer! n/t |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. We should have parallel tracks, one for negative, one for positive nt |
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Extend a Hand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
8. drowning |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:09 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. It's in the NATURE of america to drown? huh? Couldn't "drowned" describe hundreds of things? |
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Extend a Hand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 09:04 PM Response to Reply #20 |
57. yes drowning... |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:39 PM Response to Reply #57 |
76. Just reading your WORDS, I don't relate because I don't know WHAT is drowning. |
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Extend a Hand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 12:32 AM Response to Reply #76 |
96. Drowning, in this case, is a metaphor |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
10. screwed n/t |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
12. Failed empire. n/t |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:06 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. That's what the corporations want, nobody left to regulate them. What we gonna DO about it? |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:22 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. There's the question. |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
15. Transitional |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:05 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. It has been a centuries long fight, with setbacks, to make real the promise of the Decl of Indep.... |
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GCP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
22. Four words - Lowest Common denominator-ruled |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:25 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Do you realize that you're describing YOURSELF then, under all operative law and principle here? |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
27. Disingenuous. |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:40 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. well I'm learning: People value a quick chance to post but don't follow the OP or read it |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:53 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. excuse me- but you asked for one word answers, as well as longer ones... |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:18 PM Response to Reply #37 |
44. ok, I've NO IDEA what's specifically disingenuous? it's intention to prosper? |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:56 PM Response to Reply #44 |
52. it's a country that pretends to be one thing, when in fact it isn't. |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:09 PM Response to Reply #52 |
63. because if nobody (in decent numbers) SAYS "this ideal's violated" and sticks with it, there's no |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
28. Home |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:42 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. No place like Home! |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:44 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. And I want to keep it home sweet home. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
31. LOST |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:13 PM Response to Reply #31 |
40. what got lost? |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
33. Evolving |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
34. Free. |
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Booster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
35. Once. |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:14 PM Response to Reply #35 |
41. and now that your govt servants are no longer faithful, your attitude is what? |
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Booster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 09:09 PM Response to Reply #41 |
58. My attitude is that there is way too much corruption in government |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:32 PM Response to Reply #58 |
75. Me too. Right on. nt |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
38. Raped |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:15 PM Response to Reply #38 |
42. What suffered this Fate and what should we DO about it? |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 09:03 PM Response to Reply #42 |
55. * & impeachment for starters |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
43. CORRUPT |
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Homer Wells (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
45. Freefalling!! n/t |
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ToeBot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
46. Delusional. nt |
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adnelson60087 (661 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
47. Dream. |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:42 PM Response to Reply #47 |
78. Great one. Quoting Al Gore, I wonder if america's exported so much hope that it sucked DU dry???? |
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SledDriver (699 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
48. Finished. |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
49. Dead... |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
50. Shop-a-liciously destitute, but thoroughly infotained..n/t |
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GuvWurld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
51. Independent |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:19 PM Response to Reply #51 |
66. Independence is an excellent word addition |
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D-Sooner (86 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
53. Beautiful |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:24 PM Response to Reply #53 |
69. America the Beautiful- yes it sounds like a great song! :) That's most certainly part of America |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
54. Brainwashed |
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democrat2thecore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
56. Diverse -nt |
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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
60. Plutocracy. |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:23 PM Response to Reply #60 |
68. In actuality it appears so, but is this Right-ful, in your opinion? No one's rights violated by it? |
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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:47 PM Response to Reply #68 |
80. Is it right? No. But America was founded as a plutocracy and still is one. |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:55 PM Response to Reply #80 |
83. no, it was founded on the most egalitarian PRINCIPLES the world had ever seen, the plutocracy FOUGHT |
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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:00 PM Response to Reply #83 |
85. Only white male landowners could vote when it was founded. |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:08 PM Response to Reply #85 |
88. "white male landowners" = NOT true. Vermont for example had no property requirement |
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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:22 PM Response to Reply #88 |
93. Yes, and there's the context of the times. |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 09:22 AM Response to Reply #93 |
107. Try reading Thom Hartmann's What Would Jefferson Do |
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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 09:01 PM Response to Reply #107 |
128. Jefferson was undoubtedly the greatest of the founding fathers... |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 09:46 PM Response to Reply #128 |
129. and Ben Franklin, Samuel Adams, Ethan Allen, Thomas Paine (the "architect" of the Revol) and many |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:15 PM Response to Reply #85 |
89. How do i say this? I love your anti-plutocratic values but your trashing of the american revolution |
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cloudbase (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
61. On sale now! n/t |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
64. Afraid...nt |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:26 PM Response to Reply #64 |
72. John Adams wrote: {Fear} renders men.. so stupid and miserable, that Americans.... |
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qwertyMike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
65. Car Crash |
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Dukkha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
67. Gluttonous |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:28 PM Response to Reply #67 |
73. Here again the ideals at Founding, and 2 centuries thereafter, were thrift not gluttony |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
70. 1. Idealist |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:31 PM Response to Reply #70 |
74. Thank you for these interesting suggestions nt |
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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
71. 5th |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
77. Screwn. |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:20 PM Response to Reply #77 |
91. That's fine. I think the main idea is that there's a negative and positive way to say it |
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bleever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
79. If we're talking about the ideal of America, |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 10:52 PM Response to Reply #79 |
81. Looks like you put some good thought into these! :) |
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bleever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:00 PM Response to Reply #81 |
84. Land Shark has made me think |
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unkachuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
86. bullshit |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
90. Deteriorating |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:22 PM Response to Reply #90 |
94. exactly WHAT is deteriorating? It helps GREATLY to be able to know and say that... |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:47 PM Response to Reply #94 |
95. WTF are you talking about? |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 09:07 AM Response to Reply #95 |
106. WTF I'm talking about is the subject of what IS your country, at bottom? |
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ordinaryaveragegirl (853 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-27-08 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
92. Deceived. |
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gort (567 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
97. In honor of the 2000 year old man.... |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
98. One Word: Generous |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
99. 6 words: Right to be what you want |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 12:48 AM Response to Original message |
100. Diseased. |
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The Inquisitive (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 02:06 AM Response to Original message |
101. encumbered, uninnovative, sluggish, crumbling, dishonored, humiliated, lost... |
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emlev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 02:10 AM Response to Original message |
102. Two Continents |
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TheWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 03:32 AM Response to Original message |
103. 1933 |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 03:38 AM Response to Original message |
104. Rogue. Heartbreaking. Gone. Shameful. Misguided. Mismanaged. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 03:54 AM Response to Original message |
105. self delete |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
108. Empowering Individuals |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:50 AM Response to Reply #108 |
115. Aspects of our society do encompass that. Don't know that I'd define the country that way though |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 03:20 PM Response to Reply #115 |
119. Who, and What, defines a country, if not its Ideas and Ideals? |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
109. Hubris. |
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Ellipsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
110. Exploited. |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
111. our soul is lost. |
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countryjake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
112. Turtle Island |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 03:14 PM Response to Reply #112 |
117. Gary Snyder? (poet?) as i recall he wrote on turtle island nt |
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countryjake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 06:20 PM Response to Reply #117 |
124. Nope. Tecumseh |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
113. Mordor n/t |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
114. The Land of the Conformist and Home of the Craven. |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 05:34 PM Response to Reply #114 |
123. Is this what it's supposed to be, or an abdication of vigilance in defense of liberty? nt |
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ThatsMyBarack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
116. Profits And Oil |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
118. Greed |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
120. Trashed. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
121. Opportunity. (Read the OP's request.) |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 05:33 PM Response to Reply #121 |
122. Thanks for the submission (a good one) and the reminder on the OP |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
125. Statehood. Used to be the clan wore the hood. |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 07:09 PM Response to Original message |
126. Wonderful |
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2 Much Tribulation (522 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-28-08 11:22 PM Response to Reply #126 |
130. LUCKY Y OU |
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127. AMERICA -- In a Word! (nominate/suggest your own) |
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131. Unless We the People Make it Real, America's an Illusion -- this is true |
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