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Old 04-16-2012, 02:07 PM
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Betcha we're related! Might have to go back to William the Conquerer, though.
Well there is a side of the family with the surname "Auger" except it was always pronounced 'aww grr' and not 'oh jay'. I imagine if I could trace that branch back far enough I would end up in France.
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Old 04-16-2012, 02:17 PM
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Isn't it amazing that all those generations were able to survive and procreate and multiply the size of your family, without a giant government handing them everything? Working for evil companies that weren't regulated nine ways to Sunday? Crappy to non-existent health coverage?
I mean, you'd think everyone would have died out long before we got this wonderful system we have today.
True enough considering some were down the mines or in the mills by age 12 it IS a bloody wonder they survived. The women were doing fine birthing children (practically every year) as long as they had midwives. When the doctors started attending them during childbirth they were dropping like flies, but then I imagine you know of the work of Dr. Semmelweiss.

So you would have us return to that Golden Age, when life expectancy was about 48 or so? Which reminds me the FFHS National Burial Index just arrived.
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So you would have us return to that Golden Age, when life expectancy was about 48 or so? Which reminds me the FFHS National Burial Index just arrived.
It would solve SS's financial woes

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And how did those seals survive all those thousands of years without government looking out for them?
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It would solve SS's financial woes

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No need for "death panels" when you can just cut off the money and pray the Good Lord gives them the strength to survive...........right?

Nope. No evil intent to be found there...........

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It would solve SS's financial woes

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Congrats! I've talked to my friends at AARP and they're willin' to overlook your impetuous youth and let you in.
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And how did those seals survive all those thousands of years without government looking out for them?
They were hard to get to. Why doncha blame it on Greenpeace? Evil treehuggers and defenders of those commie humpbacks ought to know better, doncha think? or the liberal media?

Anyhow, no matter. Some will always take anything I say as an attack on their god given right to do whatever they want to the property of the whole country.
All in this myopic view of "local control" of public land. It's bad enough that given the history of local control of resources you end up with poisoned land ala Love Canal and flammable rivers ala the Cuyahoga. States have proven time and again that they can't be trusted with this control, they're just too easy to bribe and corrupt.
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Well, they're just competing for jobs dontchyaknow?
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Here I was being all conciliatory and shit an' you gotta spoil the moment Dave.
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