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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: The Repubs have a house majority now |
| auntblabby |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 10:20 am
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Replies: 45
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| To a scandinavian it's almost impossible to fathom how such an otherwise great country can have such a terrible, grotesquely poor health care system where people end up in debt for having to pay their medical bills, the citizens have to pay for necessary surgery out of their own pockets and where p... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Bless you Senator Scott Brown |
| auntblabby |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 9:38 am
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Replies: 33
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Master_Pedant wrote: Thank you, Mr. Brown. 
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what rot. you want more gridlock, you got it. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Supreme court ruling on corporations and politics |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 9:30 am
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Replies: 67
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| if it were up to a vote of the people there would still be slavery. since ill-informed [for the most part] voters elect politicians into office, and since politicians select supreme court justices, it is ultimately the american voters' fault when we get rulings such as this. freedom [for the common ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Someone needs to put a muzzle on Pat Robinson! |
| auntblabby |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 9:00 am
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Replies: 39
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| if it is any comfort to you, he made an @$$ of himself in scotland a few years back when he called the nation "a godless country" - he was given the bum's rush out and told not to return. his senator daddy got him out of korea [he was a marine officer], got him promoted to lt. colonel, plum assignme... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sense of being stared at |
| auntblabby |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 8:53 am
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Replies: 34
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| i guess i don't have those receptive ESP genes that the bulk of readers here claim to have. i never could tell if anybody was staring at me, but for some reason i could not look at somebody else for more than an instant without that person angrily whipping around and saying WTF?! some poorly-wiped @... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Debates |
| auntblabby |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 8:39 am
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Replies: 12
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| wish y'all had bothered to include a checkbox for "i don't debate"- am not sufficiently quick-witted nor articulate to engage in such. wish i had the gene for it. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Self diagnosed people here don't have aspergers |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 8:29 am
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Replies: 654
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| I mentioned in another topic, but it fits here as well. The difference between having Aspie traits, and being autistic may be easier to understand by thinking about bats. Bats can send out sounds which very few creatures can hear, and use the information to do amazing things. A Bat with Asperger's ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: This is pathetic |
| auntblabby |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 8:04 am
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Replies: 12
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| If NT's are social butterflies, why do quite a few of them steal in the stores? Why does a minority of them rape and kill when they are as social as they are? _____________________________ thugs are disocial [a subset of antisocial personality disorder], iow they stick to their own society 'cept wh... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Liberal Aspies |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 7:38 am
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Replies: 31
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| yes, liberal for america [but in canada i would be considered a conservative]. univeral health care for all CITIZENS- YES!! !! !! !! !! universal no-fault auto insurance? yes! proportional run-off voting? yes! uniform national school funding? yes! reformed immigration laws? yes! federal school textb... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Trouble with France is...... |
| auntblabby |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 6:45 am
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Replies: 105
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| Some of us also didn't like how he was being all friendly towards mister Bush during the time he was in office. =.= (oh and for future reference pakled, it's "je ne parle pas français" (the ç is pronounced like a "ss")) ________________________________ i like france and french things, even though i... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Barack Obama // US politics |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 6:23 am
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Replies: 53
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| [/quote] The Democratic party has discredited itself with its spineless cowardice and inability to act on its people. The American electorate supported the Democrats in the last two national elections, and in both cases we have been betrayed by the party leadership.[/quote] _________________________... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: anybody out there sensitive to judder? |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 5:15 am
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Replies: 4
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| definition of judder: the term is a sniglet or neologism, a combination of jitter and shudder, and it refers to the quality of 24 frame-per-second film projection to have a shaky, stuttering quality when large objects pan across the screen too quickly [which is anything above a crawl]. it is most no... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: hello all |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 4:34 am
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Replies: 4
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| hello, i am new here. was diagnosed with aspergers years ago. said bull and went on living my life. however it has become apparent to me that i am not normal and there may be something to what has been said to me. i am only 21, but have spent the past several years drinking and smoking myself half ... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: New member introduction |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 3:32 am
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Replies: 13
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| That's funny about not liking fiction. My wife is a Ttitanic buff. When the James Cameron version is played at home I like the first 1/2 hour where it's like a documentary. Once the old woman starts talking and the time shifts to 1912 or so I go do something else. I can only read fiction when I am ... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: New member introduction |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 3:21 am
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Replies: 13
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| Just sticking my head in to see if I found the right place. I found this place by actually typing "I am on the wrong planet" in the search textbox. If being an aspie is the average of all these posted comments then I am home. I red lots of postings and I feel like I broke down the brick wall and fo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Self diagnosed people here don't have aspergers |
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Posted: 14 Feb 2010, 3:02 am
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Replies: 654
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| [/quote] it's always best to at least get a second opinion from a licensed professional. I don't even get why some people are upset once they find out that they don't have Asperger's. I have bona fide Asperger's and it sucks. If there was a cure for Asperger's, I would not only take it, but I'd be f... |
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