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Scuba

(53,475 posts) Sat Aug 29, 2015, 10:10 AM Aug 2015

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Brilliant! K & R!!! PatrickforO Aug 2015 #1

Nailed it!!!!! Wellstone ruled Aug 2015 #2

It's quite sad. We have, inside our little brains, an area in which communications jtuck004 Aug 2015 #3

And our civil liberties, what's left of them. Dont call me Shirley Aug 2015 #4

Well, would you settle for some "tinkering" with chained COLA? Fuddnik Aug 2015 #5

K&R. JDPriestly Aug 2015 #6

True takers are the ones coming after what's left of the social safety net. kairos12 Aug 2015 #7

PatrickforO

(14,573 posts)

1. Brilliant! K & R!!!

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Sat Aug 29, 2015, 10:11 AM

Aug 2015

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

2. Nailed it!!!!!

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Sat Aug 29, 2015, 10:38 AM

Aug 2015

And to think most do not have a clue. Propaganda rules in today's News Cycle.

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

3. It's quite sad. We have, inside our little brains, an area in which communications

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Sat Aug 29, 2015, 12:39 PM

Aug 2015

are sped up if we encounter those things which would have scared a cave dweller to death, like snakes, or big furry things with teeth. Also note the incredible pull to hang onto a weapon to protect the cave.

Our brains haven't evolved yet to help us realize the ideas above are far more deadly than any creature that might eat us.

Unfortunately we may burn the world up before our brains get a chance to evolve.

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)

4. And our civil liberties, what's left of them.

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Sat Aug 29, 2015, 12:52 PM

Aug 2015

Fuddnik

(8,846 posts)

5. Well, would you settle for some "tinkering" with chained COLA?

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Sat Aug 29, 2015, 12:53 PM

Aug 2015

It's like New Coke. It sucks to be getting old.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)

6. K&R.

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Sat Aug 29, 2015, 12:56 PM

Aug 2015

kairos12

(12,860 posts)

7. True takers are the ones coming after what's left of the social safety net.

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Sat Aug 29, 2015, 01:02 PM

Aug 2015

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