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2nd Term Part 5: Big Brotha

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joecct said:
C'mon man! Every president for years (Reagan??) has honored pro and NCAA Champions. This is a pass.

I still think that the White House should host a dinner for the AT&T pros and their significant others when the tour is in town.
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You must have missed it when Obama turned 50 and Fishy raised objections. :D (yes I stole that from The Onion).
 
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pirate said:
Was watching the UM/OSU rivalry special on HBO last night and it said that a fair amount of the emnity between the two states arose when Michigan became the automotive capital and money was pouring in, to the state and the university. Is that partly the source of any of the relationship between the lower and upper parts of Michigan...or is that something different?
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It's a lot of things. From the 1860s to the early teens, much of Michigan's economy was based in the copper & iron mines of the Western & Central UP. The mines gradually wound down in the 20s and 30s (a number of reasons which would take an essay to fully explain :p), which led to a mass exodus of workers to Detroit and Chicago, where Henry Ford & others were paying big money to factory workers. This split up a number of extended families.

In the decades which have followed, some Yoopers have always felt that the Lower Peninsula (Detroit in particular) has dragged them down, that the state government does not listen to them, and that they could do a better job of distributing their own tax dollars if they just split from Lansing and formed their own state.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
It's a lot of things. From the 1860s to the early teens, much of Michigan's economy was based in the copper & iron mines of the Western & Central UP. The mines gradually wound down in the 20s and 30s (a number of reasons which would take an essay to fully explain :p), which led to a mass exodus of workers to Detroit and Chicago, where Henry Ford & others were paying big money to factory workers. This split up a number of extended families.

In the decades which have followed, some Yoopers have always felt that the Lower Peninsula (Detroit in particular) has dragged them down, that the state government does not listen to them, and that they could do a better job of distributing their own tax dollars if they just split from Lansing and formed their own state.
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Thanks. Interesting how many states have some version of big/small, city/country, sophisticted/less sophisticated history running through everything from politics to knock-knock jokes.
 
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Rover said:
You must have missed it when Obama turned 50 and Fishy raised objections. :D (yes I stole that from The Onion).
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Wait, I thought he was 51? I demand an investigation!!!!
 
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joecct said:
C'mon man! Every president for years (Reagan??) has honored pro and NCAA Champions. This is a pass.

I still think that the White House should host a dinner for the AT&T pros and their significant others when the tour is in town.
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This is one of the best parts of being POTUS. Pardoning the turkey, not so much.
 
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Now he claims to be 52! IMPEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Foxton said:
By propertarians for propertarians.

Only a schlub like you buys into that drivel.
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I assume propertarians is some sort of slur for libertarians. I'm not sure I see it as much of a slur. Why shouldn't property be protected?
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I assume propertarians is some sort of slur for libertarians. I'm not sure I see it as much of a slur. Why shouldn't property be protected?
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It's a slur because of how property is treated as the ultimate right and is more important than everything else for especially prominent libertarians.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I assume propertarians is some sort of slur for libertarians. I'm not sure I see it as much of a slur. Why shouldn't property be protected?
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Probably using it because I coined huff-and-puffers already to mean the left wing authoritarians.
 
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The black helicopters are flying low tonight!
 
FlagDUDE08 said:
To all those concerned, here is your guide to your fellow libertarian sociopaths: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...737b2c-f9f4-11e2-a369-d1954abcb7e3_story.html
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I find it VERY interesting that not one of the resident cons on this message board thought to mention this tidbit from libertarianland. This is a WSJ writer mind you, not an infowars loon.

http://www.aei.org/article/foreign-...ce=twitter&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=073113


Yup, apparently libertarians think military benefits should be cut! Great way to honor the troops who've been fighting two wars for over a decade. I look forward to the GOP nominee running on this platform. Should go over reaaalll well, especially when coupled with tax cuts for the rich.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Probably using it because I coined huff-and-puffers already to mean the left wing authoritarians.
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You coined the phrase? It wasn't already used by others and you "borrowed" it?
 
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