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Well damn. Oh well, there's always next time.

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You can be ethnically mennonite?

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So, ahem, "earning your red wings" isn't as messy as they make is sound then?

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No, that construction is our president.

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nope, just a construct of the Evil Genius.

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Ha, I'd still win. I'm studying philosophy, so we're in charge of what's real or not.

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You don't have to be a libertarian to believe in the concept of Natural Rights, AB, you just have to believe that Locke was on to something. There's no monopoly on the concept by any one side. I am not a libertarian, I prefer to think of myself as at least trying to be a pragmatic. I occasionally sc...

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It is irrelevant what their tax rate is. The british colonies actually had a much much lower tax rate than that of England, yet they still deserved representation in Parliment. It is irrelevant who they will elect or how that person might vote, that is the choice and privilage of the residents of DC...

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Yes, but considering there's a very good chance that the next president will be of African descent, passing the bill now could help it pass again in 2009, where it would be signed into law by President Obama. (I suspect Clinton, Richardson, or Edwards would sign it too.) Bush might also reaize that ...

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Which activist group is this? Does anyone know?

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Bush has threatened vetoes and not gone through with it before. It is entirely possible that he will cave in when he realizes that this could potentially severely threaten his party's efforts to reach out to black voters. Also, even if he does veto it, it can still help the bill pass when the next p...

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I am so resisting the urge to break into an operation ivy song

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I would love to see superman fight doomsday and die, setting off all of the superman wannabes (superboy, man of steel, etc.) that take his place. I see the fight with doomsday happening early in the movie, and hte movie focusing not so much on superman as what happens after he's gone. I'm not saying...

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That's like my breakfast every day.

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all I'm saying is that someone needs to tell farsi speakers that there's more shapes than |____|

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What he's saying is that bus schedules are so horrifically designed that its a wonder that anyone can read them. My question is why should the literacy of DC even be an issue? Not all of them can read? So what. Most of those people will choose not to vote. However, the vast majority of DC can read, ...

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I shall demur.

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Ha, you try figuring out, "is that three dots under two letters, making it an E and and B, or one dot under one and two under another, making it a B and an S?"

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Hey, at least english makes more sense than farsi. Half of farsi is just the same shape over and over with different dots over or below it

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so not only do they keep on doing it regardless (or perhaps just when i'm not around), I've alienated myself from my coworkers in a job i'm at way too often.

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Alright, I have an ethical question for pwebbers: I started working at Jamba Juice a few months ago. for those of you who don't have them where you live, its a store that makes and sells fruit smoothies and other healthy food. Well I've noticed that a few employees, including shift leaders, when the...

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Please tell me you're joking. Please tell me this is a gag. I have only so much faith in humanity left.

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Firegirl, I can off a cousin or two if you want.

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Can you at least eat white chocolate?

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That's it John, you're reading a poem at my wedding. A long and sentemental one.

I think the point of the ceremony is that you care enough about the bride and/or groom to sit through hours of boring speeches and what-not. It's a "misery loves company" thing.

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What's Skype?

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http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.328:

Here is the text of the bill. It pretty much says exactly what I described it as doing, giving DC one permanent voting representative, amending congress so it has 437 seats.

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First thing I'm doing if i can't flee to the mountains is to barricade my door with my huge organ.

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If the choice was yours, what would your verdict be on whether or not DC shoud be allowed a voting representative?

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Also out of curiousity, why is Clinton on it? The whole thing with monica was sleazy, but he has the right to do his job while having a job done on him. Meanwhile, government spending and the deficiet shrunk under his watch, we successfully kept the balkans from ethnic cleansing, gays got at least a...

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Not to mention, inside the city itself, there are about half a million residents. These people don't live in Virginia or Maryland and aren't represented in congress.

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Not Reagan? Government spending grew more under him than any other president in history. (Bush might now be beating him, but I'd have to check.)

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Alright. This bill will give DC one voting congressman. It will also add one more congressman to the state next in line to get one, Utah, to keep the house at an odd number. DC currently has delegate in congress, but she can't actually vote on anything. There is some talk of amending the bill so tha...

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Should we follow the part of the founding fathers' ideals where I make my black friend farm on land I stole from my Indian friend?

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Now correct me if I'm wrong, but getting a bill to the floor of congress is a lot further than "a bunch of activists." Now this actually has a good amount of interest outside of DC, but its a good idea to keep pushing. The bill left committee with a vote of 24-5, indicating that it has a v...

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