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Not my usual thread.....

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Actually the Obama campaign, from what I have read is not something they want. At least, they don't want it to move into election season becuase as a rule, any unrest (focused on the current president or not) is rarely good for a sitting president's popularity.
 
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Cosmic Charlie

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Charlie,

This is your usual thread.

It's amazing how the "Occupy" movement is taking people's attention away from Obama's role in the failed economy just in time for his reelection campaign. I wonder how many of the "Occupy" protesters are getting paid out of Obama's reelection campaign (tax payer money) fund for this distraction.

You know what ?

You're right.

It is my usual thread.

and I didn't want that.

This started out as a serious thread about a person who died in poverty and hopelessness because nobody cared and the society no longer has a safety to catch him.

Now we've gotten so far afield we've got posts like the above one in it.

Well, I don't see any reason to continue this. The guy in the opening post has been forgotten about enough. I don't need to watch him get forgotten again.

I'm sure there is a least one mod assigned to follow me around and make sure I don't get into trouble.

If you friendly moderator guys would be kind enough to shut this thread down I consider it a personal favor.

Thank you
 
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They know that the media controls the message, that the media in corporate owned and the the powerful will use there own goals against them.

I agree that this also happened to the tea parties - which were 50-50 democrat and republican.

But as the media goes....;) The tea partiers were made to look like goofs et al.
 
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You know what ?

You're right.

It is my usual thread.

and I didn't want that.

This started out as a serious thread about a person who died in poverty and hopelessness because nobody cared and the society no longer has a safety to catch him.

i care - i hate to see anyone kill themselves over issues that can be resolved...which is - anything in life.

I am saddened that some despair to that point instead of waiting out the tide.

May the Lord have mercy.
 
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I think that the States has to be the least Christian of countries,and yet it is always talking about God. I am sorry but I hate all the American chains like Mc donalds,Starbucks,coca cola.They are world wide and they are literally over powering and destroying,what was a more intimate,personal shopping experience,where there were personal links between all the local shops agriculturalists,farmers, fishermen,etc etc.
They tear apart the natural inter human relationships which create communities of people.
They and all like them are disgusting, destructive
and certainly not Loving. Time that the very rich realise that we are nearing the end of a cycle,
and Hell will be waiting for them,unless they treat their fellow humans well. I think that the
cult of celebrity is sickening ,for here it is becoming like yours ,but never was here.
You call them 'stars'.Why ?.For me those are in the Sky. Anyone can be an actor.Why are
these' silly 'people so considered ? It's time for this 'sick' culture to 'die'. I am happy to see
that a new generation of 'les indignes' as we call them are on the streets protesting .
God bless them,they are the Children of God.

Here is where we can agree.
 
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I say it's time to pull the plug on the U.S. military-industrial complex. Time to go back to being isolationist, in the military campaigning sense. Bring those troops home and have them secure our border.

As for all those bases around the world, shut-down the majority of them. There's a madman to the North of South Korea who threatens not only their existence but EVERYBODY'S existence (Mutually Assured Destruction). However, South Korea would be an opportune time for the U.N., NATO, even Europe to at least chip in to the effort. If they balk, we walk.

As a matter of fact, regarding NATO and the U.N., leave the former and have whoever is designated to represent the U.S. in the U.N. to just read a newspaper.
 
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How would you know that when you haven't been around here that long?

C'mon, Benny, you've been around the block. You know better than to assume that a new, particularily obnoxious poster is an honest person, not a sock.
 
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I think that the States has to be the least Christian of countries,and yet it is always talking about God.....

It is frustrating. If we were a Christian country, we would be known by our fruits. Our exports are bullets and bombs, bribes and backdoor deals.

We do forgive a lot of outside debt, so we have that going for us.
 
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