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yurbud
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Mon Mar-27-06 01:14 PM Original message |
what constitutes "far left" or left wing "extremists"? |
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Initech
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Mon Mar-27-06 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
1. Far left = anyone who doesnt agree with the neocons |
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yurbud
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Mon Mar-27-06 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. I'll answer my own question to start: centrally planned economy |
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rman
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Wed Mar-29-06 04:25 AM Response to Reply #2 |
71. Depends on how much planning is involved; |
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Ian David
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Mon Mar-27-06 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
3. The extreme left wants to set all household pets free... |
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yurbud
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Mon Mar-27-06 01:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. you should never drink your own urine--a friend's, yes. Not your own |
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Hardrada
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Mon Mar-27-06 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
4. Neocons don't argue anything reasonably. |
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Mon Mar-27-06 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
5. They mean "wrong"--especially if they're ON the "right" |
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yurbud
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Mon Mar-27-06 01:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. yep--I was hoping to see what the moderate and DLC dems said |
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DBoon
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Mon Mar-27-06 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
8. any group with "marxist", "revolutionary", or "communist" in their name |
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yurbud
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Mon Mar-27-06 02:07 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Trotsky wrote something on individual terrorism that was actually useful |
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Ian David
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Mon Mar-27-06 05:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. I don't consider Marxists, Maoists and such to be "on the left" |
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Andromeda
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Mon Mar-27-06 08:10 PM Response to Reply #17 |
39. Actually, Marxists/Maoists laid the foundation.... |
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Ian David
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Tue Mar-28-06 07:07 AM Response to Reply #39 |
44. Sorry, but I don't consider communism to be "liberal" n/t |
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High Plains
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Tue Mar-28-06 02:34 PM Response to Reply #44 |
52. Your definition of the left is idiosyncratic. |
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satireV
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Tue Mar-28-06 04:58 PM Response to Reply #52 |
54. It's Ludditism (eom) (Animal rights kooks that is) |
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Ian David
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Tue Mar-28-06 08:52 PM Response to Reply #52 |
62. The PeTA people confuse me, too. |
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MadMaddie
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Mon Mar-27-06 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
9. Anyone that opposes the * cabal regime.. |
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Zodiak
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Mon Mar-27-06 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
11. The term "far left" is tossed around DU liberally |
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yurbud
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Mon Mar-27-06 06:31 PM Response to Reply #11 |
29. yep, it's use here made me ask the question. |
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mrgorth
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Mon Mar-27-06 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
12. It seems to me that |
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Odin2005
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Mon Mar-27-06 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
13. "far Left" Usually means... |
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AtomicKitten
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Mon Mar-27-06 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
14. left extremists |
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bpilgrim
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Mon Mar-27-06 05:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. ah, so any one who doesn't agree with you? |
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AtomicKitten
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Mon Mar-27-06 06:02 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Ah, is that what I said? NO |
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bpilgrim
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Mon Mar-27-06 06:18 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. that's how it comes off to me |
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FrenchieCat
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Mon Mar-27-06 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
15. Extremists on both the Left and the Right that see things as they should |
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bpilgrim
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Mon Mar-27-06 05:44 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. impossible solutions |
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FrenchieCat
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Mon Mar-27-06 06:00 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. To clearify..... |
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bpilgrim
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Mon Mar-27-06 06:26 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. sounds the same to me... |
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FrenchieCat
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Mon Mar-27-06 06:47 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. Who decides? The media and the voters, that's who decides.... |
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bpilgrim
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Mon Mar-27-06 07:10 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. thats what i said, we do... TOGETHER |
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yurbud
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Mon Mar-27-06 06:34 PM Response to Reply #15 |
31. you can work with a righty if you both accept evidence and |
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bvar22
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Tue Mar-28-06 09:20 PM Response to Reply #15 |
66. I see things |
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FrenchieCat
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Tue Mar-28-06 10:40 PM Response to Reply #66 |
68. Actually, John Kennedy did not say speak the words you attribute to him... |
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JABBS
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Mon Mar-27-06 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
16. what constitutes "far left" or left wing "extremists"? |
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Donald Ian Rankin
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Mon Mar-27-06 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
18. I'm not sure the two are the same, necessarily. |
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stray cat
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Mon Mar-27-06 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
19. I think it is irrational bigoted hatred for anyone who disagrees |
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gratuitous
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Mon Mar-27-06 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
21. They're probably referring to me |
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dogman
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Mon Mar-27-06 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
23. In my mind it's circular not linear. |
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yurbud
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Mon Mar-27-06 06:35 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. stalin or the Chinese Cultural Revolution is where one end |
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Behind the Aegis
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Tue Mar-28-06 05:33 AM Response to Reply #23 |
41. Exactly! |
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lumberjack_jeff
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Mon Mar-27-06 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
28. Extremism = incendiary devices. |
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yurbud
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Mon Mar-27-06 06:32 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. that's the problem with McCarthyism--it doesn't trust the |
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Douglas Carpenter
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Mon Mar-27-06 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
33. For me far left means someone who seeks the imminent revolutionary |
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annabanana
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Tue Mar-28-06 06:00 AM Response to Reply #33 |
43. "imminent revolutionary transformation of society" |
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LWolf
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Mon Mar-27-06 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
34. What are you asking? |
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Catchawave
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Mon Mar-27-06 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
37. Where would Animal Rights Activists be on the label machine? |
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Lilith Velkor
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Tue Mar-28-06 11:55 AM Response to Reply #37 |
48. Depends on your views concerning economics |
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satireV
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Tue Mar-28-06 05:06 PM Response to Reply #37 |
55. Are the soccer balls made of leather? |
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Rocknrule
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Mon Mar-27-06 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
38. According to Ann Coulter, anyone to the left of Hitler |
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yurbud
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Tue Mar-28-06 04:02 AM Response to Reply #38 |
40. she probably thinks Hitler was too far left--they were the national... |
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Rocknrule
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Tue Mar-28-06 01:59 PM Response to Reply #40 |
49. She's probably upset that he didn't exterminate ALL Jews and gays |
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Behind the Aegis
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Tue Mar-28-06 05:47 AM Response to Original message |
42. The broken clock.... |
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TheBaldyMan
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Tue Mar-28-06 07:25 AM Response to Reply #42 |
46. with respect UtAegis that's bollocks |
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Behind the Aegis
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Tue Mar-28-06 02:29 PM Response to Reply #46 |
50. Then, IMO, you are the 'exception,' not the 'rule.' n/t |
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bpilgrim
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Tue Mar-28-06 09:06 PM Response to Reply #42 |
64. "you are either with us or against us." - you said it |
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TheBaldyMan
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Tue Mar-28-06 07:16 AM Response to Original message |
45. if you have a political viewpoint the same as mine you are far-left |
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MrBenchley
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Tue Mar-28-06 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
47. You mean the sort of person who cries "Kerry is a corporowhore"? |
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SOS
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Tue Mar-28-06 09:06 PM Response to Reply #47 |
65. In 2006 USA |
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bvar22
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Tue Mar-28-06 09:26 PM Response to Reply #47 |
67. Speaking of "My way or the Highway" mentality..... |
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MrBenchley
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Wed Mar-29-06 08:13 AM Response to Reply #67 |
75. Yeah, our "left wing extremists" have nothing but |
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High Plains
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Tue Mar-28-06 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
51. "Far left" or "left wing extremists" |
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blindpig
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Tue Mar-28-06 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
53. If you want real change in our societyand are not right wing |
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Jeffersons Ghost
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Tue Mar-28-06 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
56. While I'm still not "far left," |
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Puregonzo1188
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Tue Mar-28-06 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
57. Radical Left (definition) |
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yurbud
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Tue Mar-28-06 07:38 PM Response to Reply #57 |
59. wait, if I belong to a union I'm a radical? Who wrote that def? |
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Puregonzo1188
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Tue Mar-28-06 08:57 PM Response to Reply #59 |
63. No not at all |
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yurbud
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Wed Mar-29-06 01:44 AM Response to Reply #63 |
69. I had a brain fart there |
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AbbyR
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Tue Mar-28-06 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
58. I always thought I was pretty far left |
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Theide
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Tue Mar-28-06 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
60. How about Market Socialist Libertarians? |
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Jack Rabbit
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Tue Mar-28-06 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
61. Opposing Bush |
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LittleClarkie
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Wed Mar-29-06 03:28 AM Response to Original message |
70. It's just a spectrum thing |
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Behind the Aegis
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Wed Mar-29-06 06:09 AM Response to Original message |
72. In this thread... |
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sandnsea
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Wed Mar-29-06 06:33 AM Response to Original message |
73. Ideology over progress |
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benEzra
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Wed Mar-29-06 07:15 AM Response to Original message |
74. The degree to which they are willing to use FORCE to impose their views |
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riona
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Wed Mar-29-06 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
76. i think the whole political spectrum has shifted right |
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The Straight Story
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Wed Mar-29-06 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
77. The far left /right are parts of a circle which is where the 2 touch |
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radio4progressives
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Wed Mar-29-06 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
78. According Senator Schumer, Feingold represents the "Fringe Left" |
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radio4progressives
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Wed Mar-29-06 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
79. Today, a Leftist is anyone who Defends the American Constitution |
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VOX
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Wed Mar-29-06 02:24 PM Response to Reply #79 |
80. Isn't this the sad truth!!! n/t |
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Wed Mar-29-06 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
81. open borders, 70% tax rate suggestions, putting chickens & humans in same |
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ieoeja
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Wed Mar-29-06 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
82. Minimum Wage |
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