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I give you a steak, and you give me a soy burger in exchange..

Re do that last post (and the prior post), and this time put some heart into it. I'll wait...
Once you've finished perusing my back catalogue, get back to me.

P.S. it was more like 30 Lbs of lean ground chuck - good but not great.
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We're told that it's our civic duty to vote. What we should be told is that unless we take the time to become informed voters, our civic duty is to refrain from voting.
Why should I bother to cast a ballot when it's going to be canceled out by the first "responsible citizen" who walks into a voting booth and throws a dart because they haven't bothered to educate themselves?

We're told who to vote for by the powers to be who manipulate how much we get to hear and from whom.
In last night's debate, it was 11 minutes before anyone but Romney or Gingritch was allowed to speak.
If one added up the total minutes that the candidates each spoke, Paul's would be a fraction of the front runners. Why? The front runners always say the same things. The same talking points that have been repeated so often as to become nothing but stale rehashing. Paul is silenced and ignored because what he says is hits too close to home.
If we want to learn about things that the powers that be don't want us to think about, we have to work a bit harder. Most of us won't do that. We just sit back and gobble up what Rush or Rachael want us to consume.

It's a game that we as voters have no control over and anyone who thinks their vote makes a difference is fooling themselves.

Please, Please, if you don't care enough to inform yourself or if you are so party loyal that you don't care about objective truth as long as your man get elected, do us all a favor and DON'T VOTE.
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