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Digital_Trucker 10-07-08 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Flamingboat
The best cities in America are brought to you by liberals. San Francisco, Seattle, New York and Boulder.

I don't see a smiley after this statement, so I assume you're being serious?:rotfl:

Flamingboat 10-07-08 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker
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Originally Posted by Flamingboat
The best cities in America are brought to you by liberals. San Francisco, Seattle, New York and Boulder.

I don't see a smiley after this statement, so I assume you're being serious?:rotfl:

What right wing cities are American icons?

Flamingboat 10-07-08 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by August

Having been to all of those cities I can say with assurance that you can keep those those places. Me, personally, i like grass, trees and nature in general far too much to ever live on one of those graffiti covered concrete cesspools.

Can I have what you are smoking? I'm from Virginia and I am here in RI for school. This place IS a graffiti covered cesspool! I know what pretty areas look like, this sure is not it.

Digital_Trucker 10-07-08 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Flamingboat
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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker
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Originally Posted by Flamingboat
The best cities in America are brought to you by liberals. San Francisco, Seattle, New York and Boulder.

I don't see a smiley after this statement, so I assume you're being serious?:rotfl:

What right wing cities are American icons?

What cities are right wing? People are right wing, not cities:hmm: You say that these cities are brought to you by liberals. How can you know the political leanings of the people who built these cities?

As for cities being icons, I would have to say that no city is an icon, it's a freaking city.

Hylander_1314 10-07-08 08:22 AM

Just go to Boulder, and listen to the general population talk. If they ain't leftist commies, I don't know what is. And they definitely have their noses in the air, as if they have some sort of preference over everyone else.

Flamingboat 10-07-08 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker
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Originally Posted by Flamingboat
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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker
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Originally Posted by Flamingboat
The best cities in America are brought to you by liberals. San Francisco, Seattle, New York and Boulder.

I don't see a smiley after this statement, so I assume you're being serious?:rotfl:

What right wing cities are American icons?

What cities are right wing? People are right wing, not cities:hmm: You say that these cities are brought to you by liberals. How can you know the political leanings of the people who built these cities?

As for cities being icons, I would have to say that no city is an icon, it's a freaking city.

So San Francisco isn't a liberal city now? Ok then, way to dodge the question.

Flamingboat 10-07-08 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Hylander_1314
Just go to Boulder, and listen to the general population talk. If they ain't leftist commies, I don't know what is. And they definitely have their noses in the air, as if they have some sort of preference over everyone else.

Leftist commies? The right wing just lost it's ability to call anyone a left wing commie after that bailout package that just went to wall street. So much for all that "free market" rhetoric.

Since the bailout we can plainly see the right wing has no problem with handouts, so now we are just fighting over who gets them. Joe Citizen on main street, or the coke sniffing traders on wall street.

Thomen 10-07-08 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Flamingboat
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Originally Posted by Hylander_1314
Just go to Boulder, and listen to the general population talk. If they ain't leftist commies, I don't know what is. And they definitely have their noses in the air, as if they have some sort of preference over everyone else.

Leftist commies? The right wing just lost it's ability to call anyone a left wing commie after that bailout package that just went to wall street. So much for all that "free market" rhetoric.

Since the bailout we can plainly see the right wing has no problem with handouts, so now we are just fighting over who gets them. Joe Citizen on main street, or the coke sniffing traders on wall street.

Uh, it was the Democrats who wanted to 'hand out' up to 300 million per year to organizations like ACORN in the first draft of the bail out. Nice to see that you wear your blinders. :up:

Digital_Trucker 10-07-08 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Flamingboat
So San Francisco isn't a liberal city now? Ok then, way to dodge the question.

What question? All I see are statements about what fine shining examples of liberalism some cities are and how there are no "Right Wing" cities that are "icons". If the cities that you named (or ANY city, for that matter) are your icons, you have some pretty low standards, IMO.

August 10-07-08 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Flamingboat
Can I have what you are smoking? I'm from Virginia and I am here in RI for school. This place IS a graffiti covered cesspool! I know what pretty areas look like, this sure is not it.

Oh I fully agree. Providence, like any urban area, is no great shakes. I only live in this state because that's where the work is (just about 50 yards from my front door atm and not in Providence) but i stay out of the city as much as humanly possible and Rose and I are currently looking for a place in Seekonk, Rehoboth or Swansea.

Sailor Steve 10-07-08 11:20 AM

I had to look in a dictionary to make sure. The first definition of 'Icon' is a picture or representation, but the second definition, at least in The American Heritage Dictionary, is "An important and enduring symbol", and San Francisco at least is recognizably famous for being the center of the hippie movement in the '60s and is still considered to be a center of liberalism in America.

So, semantics aside, I think the original reference is valid.

Digital_Trucker 10-07-08 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I had to look in a dictionary to make sure. The first definition of 'Icon' is a picture or representation, but the second definition, at least in The American Heritage Dictionary, is "An important and enduring symbol", and San Francisco at least is recognizably famous for being the center of the hippie movement in the '60s and is still considered to be a center of liberalism in America.

So, semantics aside, I think the original reference is valid.

Point ceded. While San Francisco may be an important and enduring symbol, I would have to ask what, exactly it symbolizes. I'm certain that if you asked 10 people that question you'd probably get 12 different answers and 10 out of 9 of them would be offensive to 3% of the registered iconoclasts:D

Sailor Steve 10-07-08 12:33 PM

:rotfl: :rock:

I'd be offended but I have absolutely no idea what that means. Nor what percentage of which group that puts me in.

Digital_Trucker 10-07-08 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
:rotfl: :rock:

I'd be offended but I have absolutely no idea what that means. Nor what percentage of which group that puts me in.

Oh crap, I've unintentionally started talking like a politician (while trying to make a bad joke). Shame on me:p

Digital_Trucker 10-07-08 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Thomen
Uh, it was the Democrats who wanted to 'hand out' up to 300 million per year to organizations like ACORN in the first draft of the bail out. Nice to see that you wear your blinders. :up:

And look what they would have done with it :

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10...investigation/

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the...es_raided.html

They couldn't even think up good fake names, so they attempted to register the starting line-up of the Dallas Cowboys to vote..........................In Nevada:rotfl:

August 10-07-08 04:41 PM

So unlike the Democrats unsubstantiated voter fraud claims in the 2000 election we're already seeing numerous verified voter fraud efforts by the Dems this year.

Maybe we're nearer the next civil war than I've previously thought...

Hylander_1314 10-07-08 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by August
So unlike the Democrats unsubstantiated voter fraud claims in the 2000 election we're already seeing numerous verified voter fraud efforts by the Dems this year.

Maybe we're nearer the next civil war than I've previously thought...

Either that or a new stand at Independence

SUBMAN1 10-08-08 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker
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Originally Posted by Flamingboat
The best cities in America are brought to you by liberals. San Francisco, Seattle, New York and Boulder.

I don't see a smiley after this statement, so I assume you're being serious?:rotfl:

He is, and i wouldn't call them brought to you by liberals. I think a more accurate statement is that they have been 'overtaken' by liberals, and none of them mentioned were at all built by a single liberal. They were conservative back then, much more so than our rightest right conservatives are today.

The only reason they are liberal today is the conservatives left these cities to the cesspool. :D

-S

Foxtrot 10-09-08 05:11 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E

:rock::sunny:

Foxtrot 10-09-08 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Mikhayl
See, they're not the "most informed group of citizens" either and yet nobody complains that they use their right to vote :D

democrazy!! :rock:


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