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Posted 04 July 2010 - 08:51 AM


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This was in the LA Times today. Nice little article, has a pretty rendition of a song linked, but the text that makes up the body of it is exponentially more important.

If you are feeling really patriotic, I also suggest this and this.

Now more than ever...We must all hang together, or we most assuredly will all hang separately.
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Posted 04 July 2010 - 09:34 AM

View Postsevnson_71, on 04 July 2010 - 08:51 AM, said:


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This was in the LA Times today. Nice little article, has a pretty rendition of a song linked, but the text that makes up the body of it is exponentially more important.

If you are feeling really patriotic, I also suggest this and this.

Now more than ever...We must all hang together, or we most assuredly will all hang separately.

The entire Federalist Papers? You're not one for light reading are you? :P

Personally, I say we send the complete works of Thomas Paine to the Glenn Beck fans and hope they apoplexy when they get to the parts where he advocates the government pays a living wage to those too old to work and a 100% inheritance tax on all land and wealth. :lol:
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Posted 04 July 2010 - 10:38 AM

Anyone who knows me knows I am a reader. A good 20% of my phone's memory is loaded up with e-books. But I never said you had to read all of that right now. That'd just be ridiculous :P I'm talking something to plunk in between until the next favorite author of choice publishes their next book in the series is all.

Also I don't think Glenn Beck could Handle Thomas Paine :lol:
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Posted 04 July 2010 - 10:59 AM

View Postsevnson_71, on 04 July 2010 - 10:38 AM, said:

Also I don't think Glenn Beck could Handle Thomas Paine :lol:

For your astonishment.
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Posted 04 July 2010 - 11:14 AM

View Postpoko, on 04 July 2010 - 10:59 AM, said:

For your astonishment.

Well it was not astonishing, but it was amusing, though perversely so like when the guy who cuts you off in a line of traffic gets T-boned by a pickup truck because he blew through the light.

Yeah I did read a few pages of the preview, and I hold firmly to my original contention; he couldn't handle Thomas Paine :P Just because he ripped off the title and some snippets from Mr. Paine doesn't mean that bad parody he "wrote" deserves to be on the same shelf.
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Posted 04 July 2010 - 11:32 AM

I have a poster of the Declaration hanging in my room. Thanks, US Navy or whoever tried to recruit me and included it in the letter. I'll never join you but I love the poster and do read it on occasion.

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Posted 04 July 2010 - 02:49 PM

I got a nice parchment copy from Philip Morris as a kid.
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