Lord Stanley
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RE: Leadership, Hope and in the American Way
(03-06-2009 08:41 AM)TomorrowHerd Wrote: Those of you who have never lived oversees will never know the thrill, yes THRILL of going to a Denny's, IHOP , Waffle house , Cracker Barrell etc. after being away from the states for a long time!!
Y'all have a great yesterday!
What a great point - I lived overseas from the early 80's on and off through the late 90's - almost 20 years.
I wasn't so much enamored with American food, but completely floored everytime I came back to the States and saw and rode in American cars.
Can you imagine growing up driving around in your family car (Mazda 323) and having Grandpa and Grandma pick you up in a Buick?
It was like being picked up by the Space Shuttle.
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Owl 69/70/75
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RE: Leadership, Hope and in the American Way
(03-06-2009 08:41 AM)TomorrowHerd Wrote: Yeah, that's her. Just dawned on me to check the properties....
Gotta go to bed... Going to Guam in the morning. Going to be at Denny's within 5 minutes of leaving the airport. Those of you who have never lived oversees will never know the thrill, yes THRILL of going to a Denny's, IHOP , Waffle house , Cracker Barrell etc. after being away from the states for a long time!!
Y'all have a great yesterday!
:patriot: :patriot:
Oh yeah, Guam also has the world largest Home Depot!!!! It is AWESOME!!!
Especially when the local hardware store is an ACE hardware, that is just a little bit bigger than a 7-11. :muttering:
Guam used to have the world's largest McDonald's, too. Not far from the airport. Is it still there? I'm guessing there's been a larger McDonald's built somewhere by now. It was also run by McDonald's Australia, and they seem to have better quality control than the rest of the McDonald's chain.
(This post was last modified: 03-06-2009 11:41 AM by Owl 69/70/75.)
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GGniner
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RE: Leadership, Hope and in the American Way
McDonald's: the symbol of American "Imperialism" abroad, one in which the market in these foreign countries choose to accept while bitching about it at the same time.
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SumOfAllFears
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RE: Leadership, Hope and in the American Way
Ron Paul? anyone... anyone
after ObamaMessiah destruction of the country, he might look better to people.
(This post was last modified: 03-06-2009 11:50 AM by SumOfAllFears.)
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smn1256
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RE: Leadership, Hope and in the American Way
(03-06-2009 08:41 AM)TomorrowHerd Wrote: Those of you who have never lived oversees will never know the thrill, yes THRILL of going to a Denny's, IHOP , Waffle house , Cracker Barrell etc. after being away from the states for a long time!!
I spent 4 years in Puerto Rico and even though it's a US territory fairly close to the mainland the culture was vastly different than what I experienced in NJ before I moved there.
PS....I was going to include that living in a place that spoke a language I didn't speak, Spanish, was also a shock but when I moved from PR to So Cal I found that it's just as bad here - seriously.
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Fo Shizzle
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RE: Leadership, Hope and in the American Way
(03-05-2009 09:40 PM)Rebel Wrote: (03-05-2009 09:21 PM)smn1256 Wrote: (03-05-2009 09:17 PM)Rebel Wrote:
Picked.
Expect much ridicule from the idiots here who choose style and being able to speak with a teleprompter over substance and actual experience soon.
And those like me that will not vote for a biblical literalist. Hook your ladder to her if you wish at your own peril. She offers ZERO to independent voters. Maybe she can remake herself. Politicians are good at changing in order to get votes.
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Fo Shizzle
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Fo Shizzle
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RE: Leadership, Hope and in the American Way
(03-06-2009 11:21 PM)Rebel Wrote: (03-06-2009 10:11 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: And those like me that will not vote for a biblical literalist. Hook your ladder to her if you wish at your own peril. She offers ZERO to independent voters. Maybe she can remake herself. Politicians are good at changing in order to get votes.
Really? A Biblical literast? You have a problem with what someone does in their PRIVATE life, Fo? Kinda shows you as a hypocrite, no? Palin just appointed a pro-choice female judge. Sell crazy someplace elese. Her personal convictions don't conflict with her governing. She is EXACTLY what we need.
Fortunately...My vote is MY VOTE...MY opinion is MY OPINION. and you are equally obliged to yours. If this is the star of the GOP...they are doomed. I don't try to sell anyone on scumbag politicians...I already know that the color of their stripes does not make them all of a sudden an animal that I don't fear.
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SumOfAllFears
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RE: Leadership, Hope and in the American Way
ObamaMessiah's biggest hurdle was to get elected, NOT GOVERN. We are all feeling a little foolish about how this miscarriage of politics is bringing down the Country.
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Fo Shizzle
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RE: Leadership, Hope and in the American Way
Jindal is toast. His past admission(published in the 1994 Oxford Review) that he and members of his "prayer group" performed an actual exorcism on a fellow female classmate that they thought was possessed should be enough to shine the light upon this creepy scumbag politician.
Jindal....leadership...Hope...The American Way!....If you don't act right I'll beat your ass in the head with a bible and drive that demon out out you!...
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