Mild leftist rant... deal with it.

[moejam]

Sometimes I get bored at work and go to facebook.com. Yeah, you've all heard of it. Today, on the "news feed", where it tells you what groups your friends join etc, I saw some random person joined a group called "Tim Hardaway, way to speak out!". I had no idea who or what this was about, but apparently some basketball player spoke out that he "

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[shesarunaround]

i agree wholeheartedly. although abortion is pretty awful, imagine what we'd revert to if it were made illegal. sorry, i don't want to see the use of metal clothes hangers and women throwing themselves down flights of stairs. i never saw the similarities between abortion and gun control, but it's a strong argument

[titlesong]

The basis of the United States was our refusal to pay taxes. Freedom does make for a nice slogan though.

[shesarunaround]

really? no "power to the people," amendment rights to the constitution... nothing?

[udosianconflict]

I love my friends :0) I wanted to share this quote with you guys (although it has nothing to do, really, with the topic, or with the fact that i agree with everything you're saying -- you'll appriciate it anyway).

In 1957 when Kwame Nkrumah, then president of Ghana, had his first inaugural celebration, having successfully kicked the british out -- Richard Nixon showed up along with hundreds of other representatives of nations around the world. He was VP at the time, before he was president. "Surrounded by a crowd of Ghanians at an offical ceremony, he slapped one man on the shoulder and asked him how it felt to be free. "I wouldn't know sir," replied the man, "I'm from Alabama.""

I love that story

[alive82]

Here here! (or however that's spelled in that context....)