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12-18-2010, 07:32 PM | #1 | ||
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Thomas Jefferson - still relevant
I was rereading Jefferson's first inaugural address.
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I have this image of Jefferson striding into the studio during one of Glenn Beck's pseudo-educational rants and basically telling him that he's got it all wrong but not to worry - the Constitution enshrines and protects every man's right to be an idiot.
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12-18-2010, 07:46 PM | #2 |
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Very entertaining and remarkably veracious commentary
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12-18-2010, 09:13 PM | #3 |
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Since we're quoting Thomas:
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
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12-18-2010, 09:21 PM | #4 |
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Sorry WHIP, Snopes says this quote is false
I'm not sure there were things called "corporations" in his time, but then maybe there were. Something to check out. |
12-18-2010, 09:33 PM | #5 |
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There are dozens of Jefferson's quotes, that state the exact same thing.
Just as George Washington did, Thomas warns future American's of the situation American's are now living in ""The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens."" Snopes claim that is is false, seems to be false
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12-18-2010, 09:38 PM | #6 |
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The following of course, is that of a constitution, who's purpose, has not been upheld.
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if the rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms"
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12-18-2010, 10:33 PM | #7 | |
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But I did find it in another source... Hooray ! |
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12-19-2010, 10:34 AM | #8 | |
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12-29-2010, 09:01 AM | #9 |
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What if it walks like a dick?
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12-30-2010, 07:46 AM | #10 |
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When we lived in Hawaii all the Filipinos did the yard work, everywhere. They don't have a problem there either. All the Japs owned all the property.
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01-02-2011, 08:37 PM | #11 |
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It was not "palming a card", it was a question of degree. You support A, does that mean you support every extreme of the situation?
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01-02-2011, 09:01 PM | #12 |
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Here is a video for you...
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4000446n Or you can read this article or this one read what you like here as well Lastly I'll offer you this piece ...all done with a simple Google search in under 10 minutes. Nothing new - this has been going on for over a decade. Personally, I do not see this as a ploy by Merc, definitely one used by some illegal illegals though. It is just an inconvenient reality for some.
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01-03-2011, 10:22 AM | #13 | ||
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I agree, but with the exception of the actually "drop and stay". Or "stay and drop", which ever you prefer...
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01-04-2011, 06:17 AM | #14 |
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I would also add that we should bill their home country for the care they receive. Because they do not have insurance and generally cannot pay for the care, so bill their government.
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01-04-2011, 07:09 AM | #15 |
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Makes no sense that illegals are automatically treated to the standard drugged up 2 day stay at border hospitals to begin with. If I can drop a kid drug-free and leave within 12 hours of arrival why can't most of them? Save the hospital stay for the ones that actually need it. Makes at least 10 thousand dollars difference per mom right there.
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