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Old 11-09-2008, 03:51 PM   #1
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I'm going to try to be better on this. Someone felt compelled to burn a cross about 5 miles from here in the yard of a pair of local potters. Time to trade love for fear.
What target group did the potters fall under?
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Old 11-09-2008, 05:57 PM   #2
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African-American man with a Jewish wife...
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Old 11-09-2008, 06:22 PM   #3
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African-American man with a Jewish wife...
Yikes. In Western PA. They should have been putting up barbed wire the minute the moving truck left.

I'm not saying that all or even most of the residents of Western PA are inbred, racist, m******rs. I am saying that the percentage goes from 'almost zero' to 'statistically significant' the further west you go.

Have you ever had trouble, Griff?
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Old 11-11-2008, 06:24 PM   #4
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I'm going to try to be better on this. Someone felt compelled to burn a cross about 5 miles from here in the yard of a pair of local potters. Time to trade love for fear.
WoW, that is scary as hell. There are some crazy people out there. I have not heard of any cross burnings down here in GA and you would think that would be a rampant act given the sterotypes of people in the South. What is the world coming to?
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Old 11-11-2008, 10:33 PM   #5
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The Springfield Massachusetts D.A., has determined the predominately black Church under construction, that burned down a few hours after Obama was declared the winner, was arson... but, not a hate crime.
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Old 11-12-2008, 08:40 PM   #6
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The Springfield Massachusetts D.A., has determined the predominately black Church under construction, that burned down a few hours after Obama was declared the winner, was arson... but, not a hate crime.
No way! They only have racists in the South. Come on man, you know that. All those blue states voted for Obama. Who ever it was must have been from Alabama or Georgia or South Carolina.
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Old 11-15-2008, 12:52 PM   #7
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WoW, that is scary as hell.
More like pathetic.
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Old 11-09-2008, 06:17 PM   #8
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Old 11-11-2008, 06:15 PM   #9
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Well, whaddayeknow....all this time and I haven't had a clue what 'GOP' stands for :P

I just googled it. I have been working on the assumption it referred to the Republicans....just didn't know what it meant...and actually thought it referred to the more neo-con elements of the party. You live and learn :P
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Old 11-15-2008, 07:31 AM   #10
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Well, whaddayeknow....all this time and I haven't had a clue what 'GOP' stands for :P
I dispute the implication that the GOP stands for anything.
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Old 11-17-2008, 11:44 PM   #11
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Well, whaddayeknow....all this time and I haven't had a clue what 'GOP' stands for :P
Yeah, that is one you sooner or later have to ask about. There seems no Democratic Party equivalent.

The parties' animal mascots both got started as jabs taken at them by outside parties, in this case political cartoonists of the late nineteenth century, who embodied establishment Republicans as an elephantine lot, and the Democrats as a convocation of jackasses.
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Old 11-12-2008, 12:08 PM   #12
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Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the NoBama stickers were worth a fair packet in a few years.
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Old 11-15-2008, 07:17 AM   #13
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I'm very glad to hear that they were caught. Not so sure about the hanging idea though.
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Old 11-15-2008, 07:21 AM   #14
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You may be right. Let's say "make an example" of them.
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Old 11-15-2008, 12:33 PM   #15
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They caught the cross-burning asshats. Hang 'em high.
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You may be right. Let's say "make an example" of them.
Yeah instead we could draw and quarter them, mounting the torn pieces of their carcasses around town as an example.
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