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Initech

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8. I think a lot of it had to do with Bush 43.

Reply to WillParkinson (Original post)

Mon May 21, 2012, 11:31 PM

May 2012

And how people really saw the ugly side in the way the asshole Christian fundamentalists were running things and the flat out hate that was coming from the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. I'm glad that's beginning to turn around. In 10 years we'll wonder why this was ever an issue.

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I think a lot of it had to do with Bush 43. Initech May 2012 #8

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