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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:27 am    Post subject: How rude Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:11 am    Post subject: Re: How rude Reply with quote
I wish macbroo added a link from that site to BookTalk. ;) We could use some more conservatives around here. I feel so alone I wanna cry. Ok, not actually cry, but whine a little.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:42 am    Post subject: Re: How rude Reply with quote
As I suspected, Macbroo doesn't actually read our posts. I've already told him I'm not a bloody American.

And I'd say you might just not want people like that around here Chris. Even if they are conservative. It wouldn't be a Freethinker site for very long.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:35 am    Post subject: Re: How rude Reply with quote
Yes...if we started getting more people like that here...I would not be long here myself.

I left e-thepeople because of those ultra rude, ignorant and self righteous PARTISANS. (Edited to be more fair!) It would quickly turn into a pissing match.

Here, depspite our differences, do not let that happen.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:11 am    Post subject: Re: How rude Reply with quote
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You're right. It is because of that reason that I have never posted or advertised on such a site. That appears to be a very small community so I doubt we will get any visitors from there.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:14 pm    Post subject: Re: How rude Reply with quote
Good point.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:39 am    Post subject: Re: How rude Reply with quote
Grrr. >: I feel a post coming on....

I've put it on their site. Go and check it out!!!!

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:04 am    Post subject: Re: How rude Reply with quote
Peter:

where is it?

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:26 am    Post subject: Re: How rude Reply with quote
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It's here "Brain cell deficiency ezboard"

About half way down the page.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:51 am    Post subject: Re: How rude Reply with quote
Yeah...the responses were kinda what I expected.

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The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

I came to get down, I came to get down. So get out ya seat and jump around - House of Pain

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:48 pm    Post subject: Re: How rude Reply with quote
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After suffering wanton terrorist attacks for 25 years, culminating in 9/11, America decided to strike back. 9/11 was worse than Pearl Harbor because civilians were targeted directly in every aspect of the operation.

Leaving Islamic terrorists alone didn't work for a quarter of a century.

Blowing their heads off, apparently does.




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This is just alien to me. How does one come to have perceptions like this?

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