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post #151 of 177
10/5/10 at 3:18pm
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... assholes(sic) ...
Cheeky scamp.
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post #152 of 177
10/5/10 at 3:27pm
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Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post
I looked up those references and I still don't know what you're talking about, Mattioli
Well, keep trying. You'll get there some day, big girl.
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post #153 of 177
10/6/10 at 1:24am
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Not sure on the first count, I don't really care about that. I say the tax was unreasonable because the crown forced the colonists to pay for wars that did not really have much to do with us, or wars we'd not have fought in the first place without England
So, you don't care if the act actually lowered taxes and was good for the colonies. It was British, so it had to be evil?

And wasn't one the wars that lead to new taxes the French and Indian War? The one that was at least partly instigated by colonists trading on land that the French had claimed? In other words, the taxes were actually an attempt to get the colonists to pay for a war that was their own fault?

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This quote from Ms Cora Munrow in LOTM sums up my attitude quite nicely!

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Duncan: And who empowered these colonials to pass judgement on England's policies, and to come and go without so much as a "by your leave"?
Cora Munro: They do not live their lives "by your leave"! They hack it out of the wilderness with their own two hands, bearing their children along the way!
That quote sums up what it means to live in (and be from) New England
Yeah, but when they decide to mess around on French territory, then they expect England to have their back when the French don't like it. But they don't want to have to pay for it.

Is that what it means to be from New England?

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I'd have to disagree with the findings of the jury, because I don't think the soldiers had a right to be here in the first place. To side with the Jury, you have to believe that the soldiers had a right to defend their post.
It was a British colony. Jesus, do you not know anything about American history at all?

For someone that seems to be boastful about being related to someone that signed the Declaration of Independence you sure don't know much about the time period.
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post #154 of 177
10/6/10 at 4:22am
I don't know about the Kwisatz Haderach but with that kind of pedigree I'm starting to suspect Kate of being Illuminati.
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post #155 of 177
10/6/10 at 4:31am
She's one of the lizard people!
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post #156 of 177
10/6/10 at 4:36am
Quick! Get an axe!
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post #157 of 177
10/6/10 at 4:42am
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She's one of the lizard people!
That's what she wants you to think. The Princess is Princess of the Crab People!

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post #158 of 177
10/6/10 at 4:50am
You guys are all wrong.

She's just a teaching assistant and she works in a law office.



EDIT: kudos to anyone who gets that joke.
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post #159 of 177
10/6/10 at 8:16am
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You guys are all wrong.

She's just a teaching assistant and she works in a law office.



EDIT: kudos to anyone who gets that joke.
John C. McGinley will be by shortly to punch you.

Also, green boxes all over.
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post #160 of 177
10/6/10 at 10:45am
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Originally Posted by Princess
That quote sums up what it means to live in (and be from) New England
Done much hackin' out a living in the wilderness lately, Princess? I somehow doubt they have Chillzones out in the New England woods.
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post #161 of 177
10/12/10 at 12:26pm
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Done much hackin' out a living in the wilderness lately, Princess? I somehow doubt they have Chillzones out in the New England woods.
Not personally, but I have to pick up sticks that fall out of the tree in my moms back yard sometimes. Anyway, my point is that you only need to look around you in NE to see how difficult life must have been. My dad is fond of telling a story that after the Civil War, agriculture dropped off by a large degree in New England, and this can be attributed to farmers having met people in the army who told them how the land out west was not full of clay and rocks (true story, BTW, statistics and anecdotal accounts attest to this)

The land here is rocky, the winters inhospitable, and so I agree with Ms Munrow that those who made their lives here earned the right to independence
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post #162 of 177
10/12/10 at 3:17pm
I will never get back the time I've spent reading this thread.
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post #163 of 177
10/12/10 at 4:11pm
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The land here is rocky, the winters inhospitable, and so I agree with Ms Munrow that those who made their lives here earned the right to independence
You mean white people though, right? Because the colonists pushed the natives who were already living there off of their land. What happened to their right to independence?
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post #164 of 177
10/12/10 at 4:49pm
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You mean white people though, right? Because the colonists pushed the natives who were already living there off of their land. What happened to their right to independence?
Right, talking about the right of independence for white people from other white people. Nothing can excuse what happened to the Indians, though sadly most east coast Indians died of disease long before they would have faced forcible eviction.
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post #165 of 177
10/12/10 at 4:53pm
Yes, that's exactly what the right to independence means.
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post #166 of 177
10/12/10 at 5:06pm
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Yes, that's exactly what the right to independence means.
:sighs:

I think you're just trying be contrarian with me, when my statement was meant to affirm your view that "independence" did not mean independence for indians. In 1776, "independence" meant independence for white land owning males. Women couldn't vote, so we sure were not "independent". Blacks were "3/5ths of a person" for census purposes, for crying out loud, so they did not gain their independence either with the revolution

Sure, the principals espoused in the declaration have gone on to shape history and provided the inspiration for alot of movements that have won independence for various Americans, but are you seriously disagreeing with me that The American Revolution was a white peoples revolution?
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post #167 of 177
10/12/10 at 6:15pm
that would be Disco.
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post #168 of 177
10/13/10 at 12:11am
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Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post
:sighs:

I think you're just trying be contrarian with me, when my statement was meant to affirm your view that "independence" did not mean independence for indians. In 1776, "independence" meant independence for white land owning males. Women couldn't vote, so we sure were not "independent". Blacks were "3/5ths of a person" for census purposes, for crying out loud, so they did not gain their independence either with the revolution
Except that it's in reference to the quote that you said was "what it means to live in (and be from) New England"

Now you're saying that what it means to be from New England is being a white man who gets to do whatever the hell he wants because he has guns and a resistance to smallpox.
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post #169 of 177
10/13/10 at 1:31am
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Originally Posted by Mattioli View Post
Done much hackin' out a living in the wilderness lately, Princess? I somehow doubt they have Chillzones out in the New England woods.
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Not personally, but I have to pick up sticks that fall out of the tree in my moms back yard sometimes.
Hahaha
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post #170 of 177
10/13/10 at 1:32am
Back when I was a kid we only had three TV stations: ABC, NBC and CBS. There was this one other TV station called PBS but I was the only one who watched it.

This is a true story.
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post #171 of 177
10/13/10 at 1:39am
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Back when I was a kid we only had three TV stations: ABC, NBC and CBS. There was this one other TV station called PBS but I was the only one who watched it.

This is a true story.
When I was a kid we had this tiny old black and white TV with only one station and it was just a guy reading verses from the bible continuously and if we watched it too long our dad would belt us and send us back out into the fields to tend to the sugar cane.
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post #172 of 177
10/13/10 at 11:47am
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Not personally, but I have to pick up sticks that fall out of the tree in my moms back yard sometimes. Anyway, my point is that you only need to look around you in NE to see how difficult life must have been. My dad is fond of telling a story that after the Civil War, agriculture dropped off by a large degree in New England, and this can be attributed to farmers having met people in the army who told them how the land out west was not full of clay and rocks (true story, BTW, statistics and anecdotal accounts attest to this)

The land here is rocky, the winters inhospitable, and so I agree with Ms Munrow that those who made their lives here earned the right to independence
I didn't know your Dad was THAT old.
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post #173 of 177
10/13/10 at 12:01pm
Back when I was a kid we had three channels and none of them were owned by Rupert Murdoch.

I think I prefered that time.
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post #174 of 177
10/13/10 at 7:39pm
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I didn't know your Dad was THAT old.
My Dad's grandmother saw Lincoln's funeral carriage in NYC
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post #175 of 177
10/14/10 at 3:32am
Well, that isn't saying much about aging generations though. My dad's grandfather was born the year Lincoln died. It's just that said great grandfather of mine had 24 children across 2 wives over a span of 50 years (first wife died and he remarried to have someone take care of the 13 he already had. He apparently didn't understand how the miracle of conception worked). My grandfather was one of the last ones born and an older gent (45) when my father was born.
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post #176 of 177
10/15/10 at 5:44am
My father once started a riot at a Denny's.
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post #177 of 177
10/18/10 at 9:45pm
Hey Kate.

I'm gonna work for a Canadian government agency. Hence my superior is technically the Queen of England. Care to comment?
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