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femmocrat

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2. You are right.

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2014, 12:29 PM

Jul 2014

We do have it damn good compared to most of the world. Thank you grandparents (as scared teenagers) for getting on those boats and settling here a hundred years ago. If they had not done that, I would have spent most of my life under the thumb of the USSR. (Well, I probably would have been someone else, but you know what I mean.)

Happy Fourth, question everything!

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Happy birfdee, U S of A! shenmue Jul 2014 #1

You are right. femmocrat Jul 2014 #2

So am I, but I'd like to point out that the U.S. is responsible for much of the misery and death in cali Jul 2014 #3