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wildforthecats
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| b-leaguechamps wrote: | | Bill Cobb wrote: | In my defense, I'm not a mod any more. I'm retired.  |
What kind of pension did you get? |
Brick House reds for life. |
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cat44
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Airball50 wrote: | | The key element here is that this was slavery on American soil, in a country nominally dedicated to the proposition that all humans are created equal. |
Years before it has become at least somewhat common for some, today, to mention, I maintained, and still do, that we have a government class which has certainly not acted as if the the proposition that all are equal, or even capable of acting equally, is true. |
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Dr. Bliss
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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| cat44 wrote: | | Airball50 wrote: | | The key element here is that this was slavery on American soil, in a country nominally dedicated to the proposition that all humans are created equal. |
Years before it has become at least somewhat common for some, today, to mention, I maintained, and still do, that we have a government class which has certainly not acted as if the the proposition that all are equal, or even capable of acting equally, is true. |
That's one heck of a sentence.
I would hate to have to diagram it.
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MakeIt-TakeIt Cat
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| Quote: | | ... we have a government class which has certainly not acted as if the the proposition that all are equal, or even capable of acting equally, is true. |
That has been the plan for some for more than 100 years and they are succeeding:
| Quote: | | The Declaration of Independence did not mention the questions of our day. It is of no consequence to us unless we can translate its general terms into examples of the present day and substitute them in some vital way for the examples it itself gives, so concrete, so intimately involved in the circumstances of the day in which it was conceived and written. It is an eminently practical document, meant for the use of practical men; not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; not a theory of government, but a program of action. |
Woodrow Wilson What is Progress, 1912. |
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raptorcat
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Airball50:
I've always wanted to ask someone from Trafalmadore this question but have never gotten the opportunity. Are y'all still keeping a naked and voluptuous Valerie Perrine in a geodesic dome on the inhospitable (to earthlings, at least) surface of your planet?
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Airball50
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| She is young and alive. My libido is old and dead. So it goes. |
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Waitress
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Airball50 wrote: | | She is young and alive. My libido is old and dead. So it goes. |
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You deserved it.
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mccabemi
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i77cat
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i77cat
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Sir Walter Cat
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| Waitress wrote: | | Airball50 wrote: | | She is young and alive. My libido is old and dead. So it goes. |
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Well played |
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i77cat
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catnhat
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| He's not the best torch bearer for the NCAA is screwed up crowd. But the NCAA is screwed up. |
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i77cat
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The NCAA is a dumpster fire. But Simmons is an embarrassment. Nobody should be so entitled and so dumb that he/she can't show up, sit down, and learn something during a free year on a college campus.
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i77cat
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http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18274350/cavs-coach-tyronn-lue-opts-rest-big-three-grizzlies
I link this story for the comments. I heard a local sports talk guy today arguing that customers should get a refund if a superstar doesn't play. Another arguing that coaches should only be allowed to use a "healthy rest" on a player for home games, and that if they were allowed to rest a player for road games that the player should at least travel with the team and sign autographs.
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