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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 04:28 PM Original message |
This is not the America I grew up in. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
1. Wow. You're frickin old. |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 04:31 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. "Old" isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 10:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
52. heh! |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 04:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I am, but I'm 20 years younger than my parents, who are now |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 05:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
15. I was just being cheeky. I'm not exactly a spring chicken myself. |
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Kahuna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 07:00 PM Response to Reply #15 |
28. ... |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 07:08 PM Response to Reply #15 |
30. as evidenced by your use of "frickin" |
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Kahuna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 05:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. You'll be lucky if you live long enough to be taunted in |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 05:34 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Oh I know I'll be lucky. There won't be any social security to help me. |
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Foo Fighter (621 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 10:53 PM Response to Reply #14 |
59. Don't forget Medicare. |
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Hawkowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-10-10 03:28 AM Response to Reply #1 |
64. nt |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
2. The America you grew up in was dominated by Republicans and still is |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 04:33 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. And yet, all those things have changed, have they not? |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 04:42 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. When the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are over, and our GLBT friends have equal rights to ours |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 04:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Thanks, but, you know, I think I'll still celebrate the progress that |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 07:16 PM Response to Reply #9 |
32. are you celebrating Americans getting their bodies x-rayed to travel on airplanes? |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 07:36 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. No, I'm forgetting nothing. I'm posting a bunch of the progress |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
42. Republicans invented the atrificial hip? IDNKT. |
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Creative (831 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 05:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
16. Actually, America has been pretty much dominated by Democrats since the '30s |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
6. Unfortunately this is the America I grew up in |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 04:38 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Good! You got the advantage of all that stuff. I had two |
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delightfulstar (402 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
10. I was born after Ford "inherited" office... |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 07:38 PM Response to Reply #10 |
36. The civility you mention was reserved pretty much only for |
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Kahuna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
11. I've got to give you some love on this one... |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 07:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
35. Much appreciated, too. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
13. But note that the elites would like to overturn all of the advaces ... |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
17. On the other hand, back in the good old days, healthcare was available |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 07:45 PM Response to Reply #17 |
37. Policies? In the America of my childhood, there was no health |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:21 PM Response to Reply #17 |
50. Healthcare was not all that available |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
18. Thanks to people who stood for something, yes, advances have been made. |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 06:24 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Zing! You knocked THAT one out of the ballpark. |
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Foo Fighter (621 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 11:15 PM Response to Reply #22 |
60. Loyalty to principles. |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
19. No we have the patriot act extraordinary rendition torture undeclared wars giantanamo naked body |
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political_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
20. K and R. We've come a long way. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
21. OTOH, In the America I grew up in: |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 06:26 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. +1000000000 |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 06:28 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. One would think it's possible to incorporate the progress we've made over the past 80 years with the |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 06:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. +3 - I bet your post will get more recs than the OP. |
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smokey nj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 07:11 PM Response to Reply #21 |
31. +4 |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:21 PM Response to Reply #21 |
41. +1 |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:53 PM Response to Reply #21 |
47. +1000000000000 |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 10:42 PM Response to Reply #21 |
53. Bvar - you should post that as an OP every single day n/t |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 10:45 PM Response to Reply #21 |
55. + infinity |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-10-10 01:12 AM Response to Reply #21 |
62. When was this? |
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demodonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
25. Yes, but........ |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:32 PM Response to Reply #25 |
44. Oh, there was single payer then. It was Dad. He earned the money, |
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demodonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-10-10 01:06 AM Response to Reply #44 |
61. Yeah, I've been told a family member had major surgery back in, like, 1943. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 10:41 PM Response to Reply #25 |
51. And having health insurance doesn't guarantee you can afford any of these treatments |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 06:37 PM Response to Original message |
27. imagine how great it'll be if you live another 50 years! |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:09 PM Response to Reply #27 |
39. The work of progress is never finished. It is the work in the past |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
29. McCarthyism is over. It's called Assanging now. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 10:44 PM Response to Reply #29 |
54. And I heard on Keith or Rachel show last night that the Republicans |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
33. yes, we've made a lot of progress |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:05 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. Did I say that, or even suggest it? |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:17 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. no you didn't say that |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:31 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. I didn't see the humor in it. You've buried it under an unrecommendation. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:39 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. I didn't unrecommend your thread |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:49 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Well, thanks for that. |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 10:47 PM Response to Reply #46 |
56. "Setbacks"? |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
48. I would argue that McCarthyism morphed and lives on |
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roamer65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
49. I am reminded of David Bowie and Pat Metheny's song... |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
57. K&R |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
58. If the Teapartiers have their way some of these things could change back.. |
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Monique1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-10-10 01:27 AM Response to Reply #58 |
63. Keep your posts coming Mineral Man |
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