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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:23 AM
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I want the government OUT of my Death Bed
i want the government out of my bedroom, out of my food and drugs, out of iraq, out of my family's lives, and i definitely don't want any holier than thou asshole stepping anywhere near my death bed.
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Quakerfriend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:30 AM
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1. And, they have the nerve to say they are for
LESS gov't!

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moondust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 08:22 AM
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10. That's never been anything more than a sales pitch for suckers.
Edited on Fri Mar-25-05 08:36 AM by Xap
They really want absolute control of everything including the nukes.
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Cuban_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:35 AM
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2. You want the FDA and the USDA out of your life?
You don't want safe drugs and pure food?
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:40 AM
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4. obviously you haven't looked at an ingredients list
on just about any given item in a grocery store. They don't make food with actual 'food' anymore. It's mostly chemicals and additives, with just enough food by-product in there to call it food. E.g. 'juice' that's actually only 15 percent real juice, or just about anything in the frozen 'food' section.

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Cuban_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:41 AM
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5. I obviously HAVE looked at them.
That wasn't the question, in any event.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:49 AM
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7. How about pure drugs and safe food.
Or how about a government that accepts that consenting adults can make up their own fucking minds about things. A government that says if you want to buy vodka, go ahead- and if you want to drink a case in one weekend, again, that's your choice- it's bad for you, here's a list of AA meetings for when you sober up, but fundamentally it is your decision.. just don't drive. And you know what? We'll say essentially the same thing about marijuana. A government that says, you want to watch porn? As long as everyone involved is over 18 and consenting, it's not our business. Want to eat Wendy's cheeseburgers until your arteries turn to concrete and your blood turns to goo? Hey, fatty, it's your choice- we'll stick to our job, which is to keep the severed human fingers out of the food.

There is a difference between a government that regulates what is sold in the sense of making sure the label matches the product (you can't sell rat piss and call it beer, although many have tried) and a Nanny/Daddy Government that micro-fucking-manages all the choices individuals can make.


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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:36 AM
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3. yes, please...
I'll take an xtra large order of that as well!
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:43 AM
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6. I want this to backfire on Rove like 10,000 super picante Mexican tamales
stuffed into a 10 lb. Chiwawa.

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Freedom_from_Chains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:50 AM
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8. That's not a real liberal position
But I'll vote for you.
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 07:47 AM
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9. And while we're at it
I want the government out of my uterus!
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tnlefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 08:33 AM
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11. Nightmare: Jeb and Dimson** tucked in on either side of ya, with
Delay praying over you non-stop. Frist at the foot of your bed as the attending with the Wicked Witch of the East (Harris) helping him stir up his cauldron and tending to what THEY think is your every need.

When the job becomes too tough for them they summon the reinforcements of Terry, Falwell, Robertson, Dobson and Swaggert to lay hands on you and start some divine intervention. When that doesn't work and you pass on then they go out and publicly declare that it's all your fault that you died because you just didn't believe, or believe strong enough, weren't open and receptive to their 'healing' enough.
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