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<t>oscar;1027703 wrote: This is why i think Britain will always be anti-gun. The criminals don't have them so the law abiders don't need them to protect themselves. It is extremely rare here for gun crime. The odd few are sensationalised my the media simply beacuse it is so rare. We had a...

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<t>Bruv;1027488 wrote: Does that question include the innocent bystanders....like your daughter sucking on a popsicle in the doorway ? I think the point is that there would be no innocent bystanders. If a thief knows that everyone in a bank is armed, he/she won't rob the bank. ...

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<t>Jester;1026680 wrote: Wild, being from SanFrancisco how do you feel about the recent over turning of the hand gun law there. The SC ruled it unconstitutional to deny hand guns in DC, and San Francisco lost it's right to deny handguns to US citizens living in San Francisco. Back i...

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<t>Thanks galbally. This is a real nice post. I have heard this from people who live in our country for awhile....that America becomes a home away from home. And I can relate to how he experienced the sax music. We have street musicians in San Francisco too. Sometimes a lone ...

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<t>I am "old school" american on this particular subject. Though I don't really like guns, they are necessary. If someone is in my house....he has got a big problem. Now ...I have never heard of anyone going to the trouble to break into a home to help themselves to the fridge. That does ...

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<t>Accountable;1025364 wrote: Interesting analogy, equating the coming Obama gov't with another way of getting something for nothing. I don't really get your response. You may equate winning the lottery in simple terms...as winning money. I meant it on a much more complex level........

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<t>QUINNSCOMMENTARY;1025473 wrote: You really should think before you write. Nobody said slavery was a necessary component, I didn't say slavery did anyone a favor, but I did say given the chance most people would probably like to erase slavery regardless of the consequences. I merely sai...

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<t>K.Snyder;1025896 wrote: Well the elections are drawing nearer and I've recently thought that it was ironic that Bill Clinton lies about a stupid blow job and people are ready to impeach him yet President Bush lies us into war where people have eventually died for a war I most certainly do not bel...

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<t>oscar;1025463 wrote: In light of the International acclaim heaped on Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, i'd find it interesting to hear view's from America and other countrie's as to weather you would vote this man as President. Britain will be having their own General Election ...

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<t>It is ridiculous to say that the decendents of African slaves are better off than if their ancestors were not brought here as slaves. Africans could have immigrated here like everyone else on the planet. Quinn suggests that those decendents would all be in Africa had their ancestors n...

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<t>QUINNSCOMMENTARY;970386 wrote: Of course, slavery is never a good thing, it is a horrible thing and yet the long term results may not be as dire as we envision. Al Roker a popular TV personality in the US is tracing his roots and found that his ancestors were brought to the Caribbean ...

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<t>oscar;1024920 wrote: Wildhorses, i believe we must be twins seperated at birth, we think so similar. I like to comment on threads about your election and economy. I have to confess that of late, i have been rather a bore banging on about how wonderfull my Prime Minister is right now. T...

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<r>Galbally;1024921 wrote: I know you'll be back you crazy yank, your right you always come back. Now just you make sure and give those Wall Street boys a good kicking from us as well, get yourself a new president, and play nice when you are visiting abroad! <E>;)</E> If it were up ...

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<t>sleepingbeauty;772383 wrote: Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money. (Really, I wonder who has that?) But mines is yucky nasty crawling bugs..like the ones you cut their leg off and it grows right back! makes me want to hide and close my eyes til it goes away! ...

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<t>QUINNSCOMMENTARY;878941 wrote: I knew there was a risk in how I would be perceived when I wrote the post, it was not intended to be about me as an individual, rather as an example of many people who have achieved far more than me. But the real point is that focusing on making sure peo...

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<t>aflicki;77774 wrote: I'm looking to buy some vegetable plants to put on my balcony. What would be my best options in the limited space? I have a container garden on my fire escape. Mostly I use 4 or 5 gallon plastic pots. I am growing bush beans, cherry tomatoes, red potatoes, pa...

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<t>Galbally;1023601 wrote: Gordon shmorden, you can have him, and don't give me this rubbish about having lots of money, ye have no money, you are borrowing it from the Chinkys and then converting into that alleged currency "sterling" you guys have over there (for now until of course you realize tha...

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<t>oscar;1023384 wrote: I read somewhere in our press that McCain has said that he is not a Bush type President. I hope Bush doesn't screw up his chances for the Whitehouse as i think he's the better President of the two choices. It's shamefull that the worlds press are reporting Bush as ...

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el guapo;1019757 wrote: welcome

Thanks for the welcome "el guapo". Isn't that spanish for "the handsome"?

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<r>fuzzy butt;1019756 wrote: Yeah I know the song ...................sorry just trying to figure out what Nomad is on about . Trying to figure out what he's on about is actually a hobby of mine ,.........It keeps me occupied.<E>:D</E>:wah: Anyhoo welcome .<E>:D</E> Thanks...

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<r>QUINNSCOMMENTARY;990049 wrote: Is it the greedy investment bankers, the creators of highly leveraged and esoteric investments that nobody understood, speculators, disreputable mortgage companies, just who do we blame? <EMOJI seq="1f914" tseq="1f914">:thinking:</EMOJI> To be sure there ...

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fuzzy butt;1019703 wrote: who are the wildhorses?:-2

It's from the Stones:

Wild horses couldn't drag me awaaaay. You've heard it.

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sunny104;1018493 wrote: welcome! :-6

Hi "sunny". Hey you have a cool avatar. I like ladybugs....especially psychedelic ones.

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Odie;1018548 wrote: Hi and welcome to the garden!

Hi "odie" nice to meet you.

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Cow Patty;1018448 wrote: Welcome to the garden wildhorses

Thanks for the welcome "cow patty". Cute id. lol

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<r>flopstock;1018442 wrote: Hi and welcome aboard! What do you like to do for fun? Are you smart? It's okay if you aren't, we love the Nomads and Jimbos too:p.........<E>:D</E> diane Hi flopstock. Thanks for the welcome. I like to spend time gardening. Mostly ...

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Mustang;1018413 wrote: Hello and welcome to FG wildhorses. Cool name BTW

Cool name...you too Mustang!

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<t>Nomad;1018488 wrote: Oh yea, they fly in here shooting their mouths off about the stories and adventures and theyre convincing. We all get excited and bend over backwards because we dont get many famous people here. In the end we weed them out because they slip up but the aftermath of crushed hop...

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<t>oscar;1019641 wrote: Firstly, the Iceland issue. as i said, they owed Â£35 billion to the world. Icelandic government illegally refused to pay it back to British Investors. Gordon Brown used the anti-terrorism law to bankrupt them. Iceland's government then told British government that they were ...

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<t>southern yankee;1019635 wrote: that is why we are all so different. you just don't wake up one morning and say I THINK I WILL BE GAY. Also you may be right about hell. I think all the pain and suffering you go through alive from illness and DRAMA. Is HELL. I agree yankee. So I wo...

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<t>I woke up late that day. My BF's daughter called us and told us that someone was bombing the WTC. So we turned on the television. And of course there it was....a plane running into the tower. I said "No this is just a movie, tell her it is just a movie". But there was something so ominous about i...

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<t>I am an agnostic. Maybe there is a God maybe not. But there is no hell. Why would God make a hell? Maybe we reincarnate and in our next life we are on the receiving end of our bad deeds in this life. I think that most people are good and hell would be pretty empty...so why build one? As far as ho...

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<t>oscar;1019628 wrote: This has already happened today in Britain. The Prime Minister Gordon Brown used massive government funds to buy out the banks. He would not agree to the deal unless the bank chiefs resigned which they had no choice. The bank directors are out of a job and will be ...

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<t>Bryn Mawr;1019386 wrote: Consider what happens when any company becomes bankrupt. An Administrator is appointed who's job it is to maximise the repayments to the creditors of the company by recovering as much of is assets as possible - those assets including the debts owed to the company. <b...

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Chezzie/Kathy/Idgie: Thanks for the warm welcome. I am already enjoying myself here. :-6

Nomad: The real wildhorses from san francisco? What? Someone has been pretending to be me? What did they look like? LOL

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<t>Galbally;1018390 wrote: Mass homelessness, mass poverty on a third world scale, mass social upheaval, a massive loss of productive capital through a collapse in equity prices, and in general a destabilization of the whole system. Its not worth allowing philosophical rigidity of the financial and ...

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<t>There are already homeless people in USA.....there have been for years. Wages did not keep up with the cost of housing. There are actually employed people living in shelters here because they don't make enough to afford housing. There are homeless families living in shelters too. They...

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<t>oscar;1018198 wrote: Oh that's brilliant. Yes, in effect, put the drug lords out of business. In return, give young kids an endless supply of what ever they want. Governments won't have to invest in therepy, because they will all be dead. Ba...

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<t>spot;1018177 wrote: Is there nobody out there looking for a rise to, say, a modest 9500? 10000? Maybe after a few weeks...but not this week. I really think that people are not over the panic yet and they will wait to see what happens. If the market starts to move in a more latera...

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<t>spot;1018179 wrote: That depends on which country you're looking at. The British have this morning bailed out the largest bank over here, RBS, but confiscated 60% of RBS' shares in the process thereby becoming the majority stockholder. If there's rapine and plunder in progress it's the mighty sha...

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Butterfly/Red: Nice to meet you. I really think I will like this forum. Hope we have lots of good chat hours.

Jimbo: Omg....seahorse is my id on another forum....lol.

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<t>We have sidewalk sales here. During the nice weather many people take things out to the sidewalk to sell them. They put up notices around on the light poles. It is nice to walk around to the different sales and see what you can find. I love doing this. The last sidewalk sale I happened across had...

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<t>I am afraid of heights if there is nothing to hold onto. If there is a secure railing I am ok. But if I try to like cross a bridge with no sides on it....forget it....it freaks me out!!! I have a hard time looking over the edge of anything even with railing. I get this weird sensation of being pu...

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I guess I should have stopped here first. So I am doing this kind of backwards. I have been reading posts here for a couple of days and you all seem so friendly that I decided to join.

I am posting from San Francisco/USA.

:yh_hugs

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<t>In my opinion, they should just legalize drugs. They should use the drug enforcement money to create drug treatment programs for those who fall over the edge. People who want to use drugs will do so regardless of whether it is legal or not. Most who do use them, do it recreationally a...

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<t>I think it won't be easy, but won't be too bad. We have a new president on the way and if he wants to get elected to a second term...he will have to figure out a way to stabilize things. I am glad this did not happen three or four years ago. I wish they would use the 700B ...

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<t>The bailout won't work. The money will end up in the pockets of the banksters that ran wild and created the mess in the first place. Taxpayers are taking the loss instead of the banksters. Of course, when they were raking in the money they were "private" businesses. But now all of the...

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I think it will go up and down during the week, but by Friday it will not be very much different from what it is now. I think some people got panicky and sold unecessarily. It will smooth out by the end of the week. Just my 2 cents worth. :-6

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