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Subject:	Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 1999 17:47:54 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: > Why are we arguing about this old news? > > 1 - the moral majority is neither, the elephants always try to get > jackasses (which true elephants will always deny), and the jackasses > always try to get elephants (which true jackasses will always deny)... And they both fear that the Libertarian vultures will gobble them up :')

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		Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
Ed Jones wrote (in several different posts): (...) As well they should. While the LP is derided, and rightly so, for being a bit frothy/extremist/wacko, the actual sentiment of the country as a whole, which is more important, really, than what brand (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
(...) Hey, I'm still typing one handed, give me a break (sorry, the right arm is broke and ya can;t break it again - actually not broke, just unusable due to a pinched nerve) (...) Not wanting to go into the Libertarian debate of "earning your (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
(...) While all of those things may have some value, I've helped fund a great many of them myself out of my own pocket at the personal ticket-buying and donation level. All of the things you mention in the first sentence _ought_ to be funded (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
(...) Unfortunately, the country is simultaneously swinging in a "Government is the mommy to take care of me" direction. Weird things happen when a large group of people is looked at as a unified whole, which it isn't. Steve (27 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
<FH388n.5F4@lugnet.com> <37C5D07F.B4AB98C3@voyager.net> <FH3z48.893@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Er, technically, no. They would merely have to give enough more that the same worthy (...) (27 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
<FH388n.5F4@lugnet.com> <37C5D07F.B4AB98C3@voyager.net> <FH3z48.893@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) What if the voluntarily given money is more efficiently used? What if the donors also (...) (27 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
(...) Sorry, but that's what I distilled out. You spent two paragraphs trying to explain Clinton's crime as "he slept around, which is not a crime" and one sentence on the theme below. (...) Granted that what you say is true(1), I'm just confining (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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