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07-18-2018, 11:11 PM
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PA Steward
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Getting back to the original post, youse guys just haven't gotten the message.
You've doubled and tripled down the last week.
I hope you know what you're doing.
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07-18-2018, 11:22 PM
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#272
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Now in Houston
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Originally Posted by ReplayRandall
444 days= Jimmy Carter was the worst, period.
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Gotta agree.
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07-20-2018, 01:01 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Originally Posted by formula_2002
take a pause
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
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You get an A for effort. Too bad there was a pause of only one post. Now two.
It's been a long time since I have read "The Gettysburg Address". It is interesting to read again after so many years and what little I know of the events that lead to the Civil War.
Much of the Civil War was fought because of the issue of slavery, but it was probably too much of a political hot potato to mention it. He did say at the end that "this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom..." Is he referring to slaves when he says "new birth of freedom" or am I reading too much into it?
We should all remember the last line, because I don't know if that is as true today as it was in years past -- "...government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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07-20-2018, 05:21 AM
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#274
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Beaverdam Virginia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ReplayRandall
444 days= Jimmy Carter was the worst, period.
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Come on, he stood up to the Russians by boycotting the Olympics. What an embarrassment.
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07-20-2018, 06:38 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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Originally Posted by highnote
You get an A for effort. Too bad there was a pause of only one post. Now two.
It's been a long time since I have read "The Gettysburg Address". It is interesting to read again after so many years and what little I know of the events that lead to the Civil War.
Much of the Civil War was fought because of the issue of slavery, but it was probably too much of a political hot potato to mention it. He did say at the end that "this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom..." Is he referring to slaves when he says "new birth of freedom" or am I reading too much into it?
We should all remember the last line, because I don't know if that is as true today as it was in years past -- "...government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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Slavery was a part of the larger issue, which was states rights. The Civil War determined that the federal govt had sovereignty over the states. The feds have since learned that if it doesn't have the rights, it can get it through the power of the purse.
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07-24-2018, 08:38 PM
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#276
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07-24-2018, 09:01 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canandaigua, New york
Posts: 112,887
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Liberals are not really very bright.
Just talk to one. They are scared of everything - babies have bigger balls!
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07-24-2018, 10:06 PM
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Now in Houston
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Originally Posted by Andy Asaro
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Awesome tweet
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08-09-2018, 07:36 AM
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08-09-2018, 11:53 AM
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The Voice of Reason!
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Location: Canandaigua, New york
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If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to bring a pooper-scooper with you..
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna see, some awful stuff out there.
For those who come to San Francisco
Crossing streets will be a challenge there
In the streets of San Francisco
Lots of turds, and empty needles too.
All across the city
Things are pretty shitty
People in motion
They need some improvement,
Stop taking your movements,
I know they are spotty,
But look for a potty
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08-09-2018, 07:37 PM
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Just another Facist
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The wife and I were scheduled to attend a 4 day convention in San Fran in October. We canceled. No way in hell I spend any money there.
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08-09-2018, 08:37 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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Tony Bennett left more than his HEART there.
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