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    When our previous topic hit the 1,000-response mark, sleazy behavior by politicians was eliciting a certain amount of non-astonishment.

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    dang
    had been helping you out Gonzo, with some corrections. Then I got "you are not authorized to post" and the whole thing was lost. Will do it again a bit later, as must cook now********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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    No problemo Lilly, I know where your heart is!
    If this following is really awful in German please just forget about it. The English translation ain't no pic-nic eith Never Argue With a German If You're Tired Of European Song Lyrics Artist(Band):Jefferson Airplane Sticken in mein Hachen Sticken in mein Haut Fugen mein weiss mit mein auss Pucken Sprechen Sie nicht Meinem Deutschen wenn Sie Müden sind Meine Auto fahrt sehr Schnell aber es rast Gegen mauen Ah, ja, das bin meine Ja, das bin du Du, das bin ich Ver such es Send "Never Argue With a German If You're Tired Of European Song" Ringtones to Cell If you find some error in Never Argue With a German If You're Tired Of European Song Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to Ali for submitting the lyrics. Never Argue With a German If You're Tired Of European Song Never Argue With a German if You're Tired by: Jefferson Airplance , circa 1971 The lyrics given here (and in most places) are completely awful. The German in the actual song is not very good either, but here is my best understanding of the song: Stecken in mein Haken. Stecken in mein Haut. Fügen mein weiss mit mein Ausspucken. Streiten Sie nicht Mit einem Deutschen wenn Sie Müde sind. Meine Auto fährt sehr Schnell aber es rast Gegen Mauern. Ah, ja, das bin meine. Ja, das bin du. Du, das bin ich. Versuches. And in English: Stick in my hook. Stick in my skin. Mix my white with my spit. Do not argue with a German if you are tired. My car goes very fast but it races against walls. Ah, yes, that's mine. Yes, that's you. Well, that's me. Experiment. All the best to you and your daughter Tiger Lilly Like CSN&Y say "Teach your children well"
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    Indeed I do gonzo
    Sorry-was a bad night last night too, and was also sensing extreme tenseness in your posts, felt aggressed somehow :) If it cheers you up-my daughter and I defaced a poster yesterday, with a giant black marker. A campaign poster for the Republikaner (neo-fascist party here). On this poster was a lovely photo of a mosque, with the sun going down behind it. The caption read: "German culture instead of multi-culture". My daughter saw the poster first, and came and told me about it. She was absolutely furious, and wanting to tear it down. But we wrote on it instead. We wrote "Never forget the last time Germany was intolerant. 0 Votes for Republikaner." How could I sit here and do nothing, when my child (who I have been teaching tolerance) was wanting to take action? THAT would have been hypocritical! :-P ********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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    Tiger Lilly, that comment sounds unlike you...
    ...you usually cheer on the radicals. I am not trying to be hostile but the fact is (and remains) that few people will act, despite the unbelievable events unfolding in Northern Africa and here in America with the move of Repubs to take away the right to collective bargaining. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer. 1 out of 8 people in America is on food stamps. The time to act was 30 years ago but we let it ride and anything done now is merely for one's conscience. But it is important to act.. I think Zarathustra would say we have no supermen to save the day. I feel that Deadheads, with expanded consciousness, should not be couch potatoes at this time, That is all I am trying to convey. Doing nothing is taking a stand. Apathy reigns. I accept it but refuse to stay silent! Bliss to all, be happy , healthy and whole. Keep rearranging those deck chairs on the Titanic. "What, me worry?' Alfred E. Neumann
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    don't get it longo
    why the hostility I am sensing?********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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    OK, 'nuff from me --
    Time to meet with my affinity group and do our thing. The rest of you can sit around arguing about E72 codes, smoking joints, playing video games and taking Watson 10/325s. To those who are acting: Bou-yahhh! Longhairs!!!
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    Up Against The Wall, Motherfuckers!
    We can be togetherAh you and me We should be together We are all outlaws in the eyes of America In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fred hide and deal We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young But we should be together Come on all you people standing around Our life's too fine to let it die and We can be together All your private property is Target for your enemy And your enemy is We We are forces of chaos and anarchy Everything they say we are we are And we are very Proud of ourselves Up against the wall Up against the wall fred (motherfucker) Tear down the walls Tear down the walls Come on now together Get it on together Everybody together We should be together We should be together my friends We can be together We will be We must begin here and now A new continent of earth and fire Come on now gettin higher and higher Tear down the walls Tear down the walls Tear down the walls Won't you try
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    Solidarity, Jefferson Airplane starfes Khadaffy
    (by B. Brecht, M. Balin, M. Cummings)Translated by H. R. Hays People of the world together Join to serve the common cause So it feeds us all forever See to it that it's now yours Forward without forgetting Where our strength can be seen now to be When starving or when eating It's forward not forgetting our solidarity Black or white or brown or yellow Leave your old disputes behind Once you start talking to your fellow men You'll soon be of one mind If we want to make this certain We'll need you and your support It's yourselves you'll be deserting If you rat on your own sort Forward without forgetting Where our strenght can be seen now to be When starving or when eating It's forward not forgetting our solidarity All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us Just so they can remain on top Forward without forgetting Till the concrete question is hurled When Starving or when eating Whose tomorrow Is tomorrow And whose world Is the world Solidarity
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    3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds
    Do away with people blowing my minddo away with people wasting my precious time take me to a simple place where I can easily see my face maybe, baby I'll see that you were kind know I love you baby, yes I do know I love you baby, yes I do do away with people laughing at my hair do away with people frowning on my precious prayers take me to a circus tent where I can easily pay my rent and all the other freaks will share my cares know I love you baby, yes I do know I love you baby, yes I do do away with things that come on obscene like hot rods, beauty queens, real fine nicotine sometimes it buys for 65 dollars prices like that make a grown man holler 'specially when it's sold by a kid who's only 15 know I love you baby, yes I do know I love you baby, yes I do 3/5's of a mile in 10 seconds... (God bless the Jefferson Airplane)
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    Great idea Musky Ranger
    I should use Jim Boehner's gavel but his office said he won't lend it out. Maybe a really giant gavel. I definitely want the crowds attention, comedy rarely does it, but a blow-up air gavel symbolizes airhead politicians Bad news, the AFSC doesn't support self-immolation. Too bad, that is a real attention getter and the people on this site who don't agree with me would be so relieved!
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When our previous topic hit the 1,000-response mark, sleazy behavior by politicians was eliciting a certain amount of non-astonishment.
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to learn that the original hot stepper Gregory issacs passed away yesterday....... may the four winds blow you safely home.
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Last year it was Kodachrome, this year the Walkman. Next thing you know, they'll stop making rotary telephones.
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Paul the soccer-predicting octopus has died. R.I.P. Paul!********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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paul gone, our chatroom gone, gonzo gone....i'm outa cookies, and the news item ripple posted is not available.......arrg!!
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Thanx, marye....when I typed in the info from ripple I got a notice saying "this domain no longer served".
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paul the pshycic octopus,and i also miss gonzos pearls of wisdom about those cookies jm ill bake some for you and meet you in the chatroom real soon brother!!!!!
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cookies......!!
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Game 1 of the World Series: Giants are all over Cliff Lee and the Rangers in the 6th.....Juan's deep drive openned it up.. 8 to 2 right now. Lincecum heating up looking good.
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reference at all too this topic i just feel comfortable in here,just wanted to wish you all peace,love and happiness have a grate weekend boys and girls. best wishes Ripple70.
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The cartoon hits the nail on the head with the emergence of the Palinistas and their divisive ideas and statements. I need to go put on my Youngbloods album and sing along w Jesse.
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Renteria with the dagger again! Giants are up in game 5 after another Renteria hit, this time a big 3 run dinger: He sunk the Tribe in 1997 with a hit in game 7. Ironically, in 1954, the Giants beat the Tribe for their last Series win.
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Would not want anyone else to win if it cant be a Tiger.!! :):):):) Yahooo for the City Blessings to the Players and wife's and all the people that make it happen (the grunts) Do For Other's you Will Feel Better!!! Guaranteed
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Must be a party in SF! "It's got no signs or dividing line and very few rules to guide"
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Do For Other's you Will Feel Better!!! GuaranteedI believe you might like them. Most do.
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ok i lie i never have one question but will try to limit my self. Do For Other's you Will Feel Better!!! Guaranteed
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Do For Other's you Will Feel Better!!! Guaranteed Not like its bad . But will have to perform a forced quit hate making my Mac do what it does not want to.:):)
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Do For Other's you Will Feel Better!!! Guaranteed
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Do For Other's you Will Feel Better!!! Guaranteed
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jm,lily,dave,mean al,gc,ted,jackstraw wheres all the news hounds at this whole place is full of strangerswhere they marye.
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... just to shake their hand! Thanks, Ripple, for triggering a lyric from one of my favorite Hunter songs. Prop 19 went down in defeat out on the left coast last night. Meanwhile, in Kansas, the state selected all the Republican candidates......arrgh! US House of Reps also swung over to a Republican majority, putting Ohio's John Boehner in the Speaker position. Pres. Obama and his platform of change has hit a big speedbump.
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missing Gonzo's inspiration with hard news, but is no reason to shirk my self-appointed responsibility! Am also at a bit of a loss about what to say about yesterday's elections in America, and wanna pick carefully what news to post from that!********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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Yes Prop 19 was interesting, and terriffic that it was up for voting at all, BUT a whole lot more serious and scary issues on board right now than the right to be high or not, or at least in my opinion!********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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With all the influx of traffic to the site, my connection speed seems to have slowed down. Mostly just a little depressed this morning over the elections, not that it was unexpected. In my own Congressional district, I've been trying to vote out since I arrived in this state Virginia Foxx (looks like a stripper's name with the "XX", I know, but she's a blue-haired grandma), a former Bush sycophant and now a major obstructionist. She famously announced to the House this year that Matthew Shepard's murder was a robbery-homicide and that he was not targeted because he was gay, that the whole "hate crime" thing was a hoax perpertrated on the American people. While Matthew's mom was in attendance at the hearing... Just the tip of the Foxx iceberg, but the rural NC folks in my district (a gerrymandered-looking district if I've ever seen one) love her. I'm at a loss to understand why. I KNOW why, I just don't understand it. Mean Al
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I don't understand the lies and paranoia and insanity flying around either. It boggles my mind, honestly. Lies like you just told from Ms. Foxx. SOME folks should have to listen to our news over here for 2-3 days, to see what the rest of the world thinks about these elections. But then again prolly those folks don't care!! ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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Michigan has such sheep as people we hire people who out source their ex company(GATEWAY)We just had a Major community say no to medical and not even allowed to grow in. The area is rural. Funny they all want to change the law we voted in by 63%. Prop 19 was defeated by the dispensaries and those cashing in a little know fact. Look were they gave their money. And there are far bigger concerns. This state bellied up to fear tactics and not remembering how we got in to such a lousy situation. Take no responsibility and blame others. Then when that does not work jump ships and expect gold streets in 2 years. Baffles me how can anything work unless all work together forget the sides were are all one. Yet im the idiot and unreasonable one and the Dreamer wont you be one too. Do For Other's you Will Feel Better!!! Guaranteed
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I watch europe for news BBC and others anything but our 2 owners deciding what we will hear.Americans look like pure idiots . Step back and take a view. Sad as it may be to do. Do For Other's you Will Feel Better!!! Guaranteed
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It's outrageous to have to put up with all the political b.s bought as advertisements by the media and shoved down our throats. Thank goodness the elections are over & the attack ads stop!I propose that no more political ads be placed on-air and that the money spent on such garbage be spent on charitable causes or paying down the national debt.
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Ted!********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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they're all bastards, both sides, they both use fear, paranoia and outright lies to try and convince the voters. The Murray/Rossi fight here in Washington state has been a prime example. Damned politicians have absolutely NO morals and don't want us to think for ourselves. I'm sick of it..........ok, now may I have a cookie?
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Let's start passing out the cookies. And some cake, cake and chocolate pudding for me, please.
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johnman pass me a cookie.
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the good people of singapore going about there daily shopping when bits of a plane start falling around there ears.Luckily no one was hit and it was just part of one of the planes engines so no probs there then.Plane made an emergency landing and everyone was fine,well with that and terror attacks no flying for this hippy for a while. Have a grate weekend all. Peace.
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Yeah musta been a shock alright for the passengers, as well as the folks on the ground in Singapore, who heard the boom and saw the parts falling. But it seems that Quantas acted responsibly, by grounding all 380's until experts can identify exactly what happened. Perhaps there's a reason why "Quantas never crashed" as Rainman said! ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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...on the elections? (Sorry to be away friends but some times you have to give it a break).Alan Grayson went down in flames in ther 8th District of Florida. This guys ran a no holds barred political campaign that made a lot of the big-money boys cringe. He shouted out long and hard sabout the war and the economy, the banks -- you name it. Though he unfortunately negged out at the end with some stupid commercials. Speaking of neg. attack ads., They of are now in Vermont where they never used to be. Thank the PACS and the corps.. Elections are such a farce. The government is nothing but the enforcers of the Big Money boys. Think about it. The rich are taking as they like and telling us to shut up. I can only take this shit for so long before I snap. Fuck these vein, ridiculous people. There, see why I have to stay awy? My Blood Pressure just went up 20 points! Seriously though, missing the conversation with you all. ~ Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools ~
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am dang glad to see you-high BP or not! ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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But do watch the BPs....both the one starting in "blood" and the other one ending in "petroleum."
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You folks live in a tough country You choose a guy to lead you who is full of bright ideas He inherits a crock of shit, tries hard, but inevitably falls short of delivering the promised land in just 2 years. So what do you do? Cut off one his legs and say ‘There you go buddy. Lets see how you do in the next two years'’ Merciless? Democracy in action? A spineless loss of nerve? A judicious balancing of the ship? Who knows. This I do know. It may be wise not to trust intellectuals, but that does not make being wilfully ignorant any better.
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Turned into instant-gratification junkies here, CB. Get it done now = get it done last week or last month or last year, and long term = get it done yesterday. It's sometimes comical in my job -- testing things. "How quickly can you get it done?" "The test takes 40 hrs." "But how quickly can you get it done?" "40 hrs. takes 40 hrs. I can't change the speed at which time passes." Dissatisfied co-worker walks away thinking that I'm a jerk or incompetent or both. And maybe I AM a jerk and/or incompetent, but 40 hrs is still 40 hrs.
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screw politics, politicians, corporations, and politicians...did I mention corporations or politicians?