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Old 01-04-2007, 12:30 AM   #31
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*phweeeet* Flag on the play. That's three very humorous posts from tw in one thread.
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Old 01-04-2007, 08:19 AM   #32
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UG is well traveled. He knows a gallon of gas is larger in an imperial nation.
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Old 01-04-2007, 08:27 AM   #33
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the most amazing circuses are Quebec's Cirque du Soleil.

Dude, I saw Delirium and it was the most pretentious bunch of crap I've ever seen. I'm no cultural idiot, I wasn't expecting bears on tricycles...but for God's sake. I just wanted it to stop, especially that guy whose role it must have been to walk around the stage slowly looking amazed and scared the entire time. Puh!

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Old 01-04-2007, 08:29 AM   #34
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Seriously, if America is the New Roma, which way to the baths?
Or the vomitoriums.
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Old 01-04-2007, 08:34 AM   #35
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You must have seen one of the "B" Circques. Go to Vegas next time
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Old 01-04-2007, 08:35 AM   #36
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*phweeeet* Flag on the play. That's three very humorous posts from tw in one thread.
In one thread???? Three. tw funny - I'm lovin it. It must be a new years resolution!
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Old 01-04-2007, 08:40 AM   #37
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You must have seen one of the "B" Circques. Go to Vegas next time
My mom had seen previous Cirques, and loved them, hated this one...I think it was the Delirium show itself.

Of course, I am willing to keep an open mind if you'd like to send me to Vegas (baby)!
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Old 01-04-2007, 10:46 AM   #38
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And still, you have to pay them. Or else word gets around and you don't get anybody looking for work. I'd say calling them "slaves" is stretching the term unconscionably. Remember that "unfair treatment" differs considerably in definition from "slavery," for slavery is a mere subset.
Here you miss the point quite completely. Whether they're actually slaves or not isn't relevant- the point was the use of extremely low-cost labor on huge farms which destroys small business.

Because of economies of scale, capitalism constantly pulls towards monopoly, and should be managed.
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Old 01-04-2007, 11:00 AM   #39
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Thank you, HM. Yes, I said "Now substitute Illegal Aliens for Slaves", I didn't say substitute the words.
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Old 01-04-2007, 11:56 AM   #40
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In one thread???? Three. tw funny - I'm lovin it. It must be a new years resolution!
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Because I've been there, done that, and burned the T-shirt.

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Well now we know. MaggieL no longer enters wet T-shirt contests. She doesn't own a uniform.
tw's being funny all over the place today - I'm loving it
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Old 01-04-2007, 01:17 PM   #41
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In one thread???? Three. tw funny - I'm lovin it. It must be a new years resolution!
Just Notre Dame getting beat by LSU - a New Orleans team doing a job. Puts a whole new perspective on religion. The victims fight back.
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Old 01-04-2007, 03:49 PM   #42
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Old 01-04-2007, 06:53 PM   #43
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Old 01-05-2007, 02:53 PM   #44
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Aliantha, I know enough to know that empires are obsolete. I find the use of "imperial" in this context to be intellectually dishonest and altogether straining the definition of the word.

What I am doing is contending that the "imperial"-users are bullshitting, and bullshitting in a manner over-reminiscent of the Soviet Union and Red China, both of whom threw the term around in the usual lying totalitarian way.
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Old 01-05-2007, 03:26 PM   #45
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