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(1552 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:57 AM
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> You need to take an Anthropology class or two.
What the hell are you doing back here?
I thought i told you to toss my salad
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(1551 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:56 AM
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> Yeah I had a hard time wrapping my head around the
> fact that all Mexicans didn't have black hair. I
> guess most people never leave more than 10 miles from > their house so don't have any idea what Mexico is
> about.
Not for nothing, but I've been to 40 states and about 20 other countries, both in Europe and North America, including Mexico
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(1550 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:56 AM
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> Hey Bill, I noticed you interupted the Clinton, the
> lone Clinton, supporter when she was finally allowed
> to speak, as she was saying how a woman running for
> president was good for young girls with "but this
> country owes black people a lot more than women." How
> is that relevant to what her point was? Are we to
> vote for a black man because this country "owes black
> people?" While I agree, there is a debt to all people
> enslaved and their descendants (which does not apply
> to Obama), to argue one group of people's experience
> with bigotry, oppression and prejudice is/was more
> arduous and valid than another's is one reason the
> American people remain divided. While Obama talks of
> unity his behavior has been divisive, and that Bill
> Maher never seems to fathom the very real and
> pervasive and not so subtle if you live it or care to
> look at it, sexism that pervades the world doesn't
> suprise me because you, Bill, have always been a
> sexist motherfucker.
She wasn't sexy enough for him to pay attention to.
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(1549 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:55 AM
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Here's the whole post.
Wrong.
Mexicans are not all mixed or Indians. Some, about 45% of the population in Mexico are of PURE SPANISH blood and they KEEP IT THAT WAY. The PURE bloods keep the mixed blood and indiginous Indians in the lower class. (Maids, cooks, groundskeepers, etc.) If you are mixed or Indian in Mexico, you will be poor. If you are white (pure Spanish blood) you can expect a better life. Not an excellant life. You can at least be a shop keeper or a waiter. It's been that way for centuries. WHY DO YOU THINK the Mexicans come over here for work? It's for the FREEDOM and the right to persue happiness without OPPRESSION.
You need to take an Anthropology class or two.
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(1548 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:55 AM
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> I'm a former Edwards supporter and I'm voting for
> Hillary.
I'm a former Edwards supporter who will vote for whichever of them gets the nomination, but i wont be excited about it
Edwards was clearly the most qualified and most progressive-minded.
But he got steamrolled by the party poobahs who declared Hillary the presumptive candidate a year ago, guaranteeing her the lion's share of contributions -- and then by the lemmings in the mainstream media who insisted on ignoring the issues and deciding to Impose Their Own Narrative on this "Historic Campaign"
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(1547 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:54 AM
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> You are so wrong. It did start with our troops being
> in Saudi Arabia. We should get off our oil fix, and
> let them slide gracefully back into the 14th century.
> Without our oil money (or our troops being in their
> r country) they can't touch us.
I am not wrong; you are just somewhat uninformed. I am guessing that you are probably quite young (20s or early 30s perhaps?). Issues with Islamic fundamentalists predate WWI. I did not write their version of the Koran. I recommend you do a little more research on this particular subject. It is far more complex than just us "needing" their oil. (We don't--we just prefer to use their oil versus using ours. And by the way, we import more oil from Mexico and Canada than we do from the Middle East.)
> Where? Cite?
60-day pullout: This week's debates in LA.
No pullout possible before 2013: September debates in NH.
Look it up.
> What a complete utter lie.
No lies. All documented facts.
> Here are her accomplishments:
[yawn]
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(1546 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:53 AM
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Yeah I had a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that all Mexicans didn't have black hair. I guess most people never leave more than 10 miles from their house so don't have any idea what Mexico is about.
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(1545 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:53 AM
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> >> about 45% of the population in Mexico are of PURE
> SPANISH > blood and they KEEP IT THAT WAY.
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> 45 percent?
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> Bullshit
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> That's just ignorant
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> --
> Edited by ShakinAllOver10 at 02/01/2008 11:50 PM
What's just ignorant? The pure blood Mexicans or me?
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(1544 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:53 AM
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Bill hit the nail on the head - our history in the middle east is rife with interference, occupation, military presence, rigged oil argreements, and support of non-democratic governments. Our policies have disrespected every arab country (and the iranians) whenever the local populations started to assert true independence from western influence. Small wonder it has created an angry core of radicals that recognize our policies are constructed at their expense. It started with the fall of the ottoman empire, redrawing borders to suit our wishes, coup d'etats in the 1950's in Iran and Iraq to overthrow democratically elected governments, mega airbases and embassies that scream PERMANENT...providing radical weapons for them, endorsing their war, then demonizing them 20 years later. The list is very long.
Few people want to hear the truth about this - that we were wrong, and staying in Iraq does not make it any more right. Americans obssess about winning too much. It's not a question of winning or losing. McCain still worries about this due to his Vietnam memories. The key issue is about right and wrong. Winning a bankrupt war actually is a greater loss. We lose our ethical compass, and with it the respect of the world.
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(1543 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:52 AM
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WHY DO YOU THINK the
> Mexicans come over here for work? It's for the
> FREEDOM and the right to persue happiness without
> OPPRESSION.
I'm aware of that, Perfesser.
And that's true of the majority of mexicans, who are poverty stricken in an impoverished country
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(1542 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:51 AM
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> I'm a former Edwards supporter and I'm voting for
> Hillary.
Yay!
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Feb 2, 2008 2:51 AM
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Hey Bill, I noticed you interupted the Clinton, the lone Clinton, supporter when she was finally allowed to speak, as she was saying how a woman running for president was good for young girls with "but this country owes black people a lot more than women." How is that relevant to what her point was? Are we to vote for a black man because this country "owes black people?" While I agree, there is a debt to all people enslaved and their descendants (which does not apply to Obama), to argue one group of people's experience with bigotry, oppression and prejudice is/was more arduous and valid than another's is one reason the American people remain divided. While Obama talks of unity his behavior has been divisive, and that Bill Maher never seems to fathom the very real and pervasive and not so subtle if you live it or care to look at it, sexism that pervades the world doesn't suprise me because you, Bill, have always been a sexist motherfucker.
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(1540 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:50 AM
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How come Republicans claim to be for free markets, except when it comes to health care? They seem to have no problem with drug companies charging 10 times more for the same drug in the US as it costs overseas. They then allow the drug companies to keep generic competition out for years and years so the prices can't come down.
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(1539 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:50 AM
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> Which is why we need universal health care 
amen to that!!!
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(1538 of 1687)
Feb 2, 2008 2:50 AM
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> You need to take an Anthropology class or two.
You need to toss my salad
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