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RickJWagner
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Comment #49199511
It is amazing to me that this could happen. The claims made by the plagiarist were numerous and far beyond belief. Why didn’t common sense come into play here?
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Comment #49195433
I’d like to understand how they defined capitalism vs free enterprise for the poll participants. I’m encouraged by parts of the poll, especially independents responses. I think a g…
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Comment #49176062
I’m with you. Vandalism is not the right path.
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Comment #49154746
When I got my first corporate job, I was placed in a group of 20 trainees in a rigorous COBOL course. We were given assignments and a schedule to complete them. Most of us read the…
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Comment #49130194
Siphoning money out of…? Really? What about when you reach retirement age? Will you consider medical care, a new house, or a cruise to be siphoning off of money that presumably bel…
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Comment #49122117
Even before then it was widely discussed. There was even a Schoolhouse Rock song, “Tyrannosaurus Debt”.
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Comment #49105321
Thanks for sharing this, OP! I’m a bluegrass jam player and am at the stage where I want to improve my singing/playing and my ‘first time I heard that song’ breaks. Both of those r…
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Comment #49096798
“As though my body’s inability to keep pace with capitalism says something fundamental about who I am.” What would his body’s inability to keep pace say under socialism or somethin…
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Comment #49067990
Why is this flagged, and why are some of the seemingly innocent remarks downvoted?
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Comment #49058652
No, I don’t think so. Just because you think the government isn’t to your liking you shouldn’t declare yourself the implementir of justice and start vandalizing things. Study Ameri…
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Comment #49056984
No, it does not. Social contract allows cigarettes, alcohol, pornography, etc. These are not overall beneficial to society, yet we allow them, by law. When individuals decide they …
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Comment #49056958
Concentration camps were obviously against international law. Flock cameras are not. When people decide they get to decide what’s allowable and what’s not, they break the social co…
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Comment #49052848
Undecided on Flock. Totally decided against vandalism. Violations of the social contract suck. Edit to invite explanations. If you approve of vandalism to flock cameras, what are y…
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Comment #49052818
Good for Morris! 40 years ago I was exiting the US Air Force and selected the University of Minnesota at Morris as my college. It’s a tiny campus, they advertised themselves as a ‘…
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Comment #49052751
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Comment #49052733
“ The man has some time and uses it in a non destructive manner to do what he thinks will help his community rather than just posting nonsense online “ Best comment this week, so f…
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