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« on: May 15, 2012, 10:07:56 AM » |
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Proposed new Charlotte, NC stadium with retractable roof. Just in time for the DNC and Obama's speech. 
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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"
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« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2012, 10:50:58 AM » |
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"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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kathyp
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« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2012, 11:26:33 AM » |
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that is great!!
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"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?
– Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
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« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2012, 11:37:15 AM » |
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It will stilll clog, so I hope they have a big enough plunger on hand.
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kathyp
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« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2012, 12:25:54 PM » |
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just don't let them requisition the plunger through government acquisition channels. it will be a billion dollar plunger and require a new Department of Plunger Operations! and a Czar to oversee it.
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"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?
– Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
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« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2012, 05:18:12 PM » |
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« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2012, 09:26:28 PM » |
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Michael Bush
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« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2012, 04:51:30 AM » |
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So what would the criteria be to play in the "Toilet bowl"?
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« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2012, 07:05:18 AM » |
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I'm not sure Michael,but it would probably be like tee ball. No winners because it would be wrong to keep score!
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« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2012, 09:38:04 PM » |
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Thats a good one Iddee.
James
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