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Gates
Posts: 6253
Incept: 2008-01-29
Scottsdale
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Good on ya Karl - your daughter will always remember you did this for her. Parents don't get many of those "make a difference" opportunities during the brief time we have them when they are at this stage before they go off to college and start their lives.
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Pika-steph
Posts: 54689
Incept: 2007-09-11
Live Free Or Die; US Army Est. 1775
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Sweet! A new generation of kids who are going to learn that they can't sit around and wait for government to answer their problems. Make a difference.
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Stop the Looting; Start Prosecuting - http://www.FedUpUSA.org/ "The only regulation that really works is failure."--Rick Santelli
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Momybg
Posts: 110
Incept: 2009-08-14
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Yup. Good going. Small charities are life, and lead to eternal life.
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End_the_bubbles
Posts: 9515
Incept: 2009-03-25
The New 3rd World
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Lucky kid you've got.
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In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrant's feet and rise in rebellion to overthrow their masters.
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Hierophant
Posts: 144
Incept: 2009-07-15
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Beats the hell out of taking her to a Justin Bieber concert I guess.
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Truthseeker
Posts: 8473
Incept: 2007-10-07
NorCal
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Outstanding example to set, Karl. Good for you.
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"...But people better realize that the worst-case scenario could actually happen.9/11 happened. This can happen. An economic 9/11, the likes of which we've never seen." Gerald Celente
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Amgrace
Posts: 2067
Incept: 2008-02-15
New Castle, PA 16101
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Nobody can take that experience away from you! Way to go.
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American politics as a system has ceased to function, because the system has gone from representing people to representing money. And that is something that can only go well as long as the people have at least some of that money. - Automatic Earth 3/17/2010
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Weswagner
Posts: 3
Incept: 2010-09-16
Portland, OR
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And you got back in time to be here for the short week of absurd market gyrations!
I have my popcorn and marshmallows ready.
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Asimov
Posts: 103849
Incept: 2007-08-26
East Tennessee Eastern Time
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It's justifiably immoral to deal morally with an immoral entity.
If you trade based on what other people say, you will lose money. Especially what I say. I won't be held responsible. Festina lente.
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Howardnyc
Posts: 132
Incept: 2007-11-01
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great going karl. a memory for a lifetime for your daughter, and her mates.
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kd told me (and i believe him) that
"We (Americans) deserve a Depression."
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Pietertvl
Posts: 3586
Incept: 2007-12-05
NFA
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I'm jealous, actually.
When I was a mid teen, I remember being very interested in what was going on in the broader world around me. VN, civil rights, environmental causes. But becoming involved in any meaningful way was seldom within reach it seemed. Not until I went to college.
Mine are now 17 and 13, and while their avenues to get involved are just as limited as mine were then, neither of them even seem to take any durable interest in the bigger world around them, even though we both tune them into these topics regularly. They remind me of my sisters, who were only a year younger than me, but never gave these issues much thought at all. And never did. Some folks seem to have that outward curiosity in the way the world ticks, and others don't.
I tried to engage my daughter in the story behind Malala, the young teenage girl from Pakistan campaigning for girls' education rights who was nearly killed for holding those views. Got nowhere. All you can do is try, I guess.
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"All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." ~ John Adams
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Noodleman
Posts: 2386
Incept: 2008-11-01
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Commendable. When I was that age I was preoccupied with sports and chasing skirt. Although I did march in the Vietnam war protests. That was pretty cool.
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"Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom." Will Rogers, 4 Nov 1879 - 15 Aug 1935
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Bandler6
Posts: 382
Incept: 2008-07-01
Under a rock
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My 13 y.o. gets to hear with (her words) alarming frequency, her Dad going on about this or that (often Ticker related), and it does sink in, but it all goes out the window with her boy-band obsession, 1Direction (**** you very much Simon Cowell). She is crazy smart, but just turns to mush and is way too caught up via social media with the goings-on regarding EVERYTHING these guys do :(
I can't wait 'til she outgrows it.
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"Betray Your Bank Before Your Bank Betrays You"
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Novid
Posts: 92
Incept: 2010-06-25
Philadelphia
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Quote:Commendable. When I was that age I was preoccupied with sports and chasing skirt. Although I did march in the Vietnam war protests. That was pretty cool. what was wrong with that at that age? Sports was the only thing that made sense - the other didnt matter as much. as for Kony and those against him - i disgree with the leaders of said movement because of its more leftist bushisms and what not - but at least when it comes to try and stop this bullcrap conserning child solders its a good thing and your daughter should be proud. |
Genesis
Posts: 130663
Incept: 2007-06-26
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Trust me, when the ICC lady was speaking it was all I could do to avoid calling "Bull****!" from the back of the hall....
There were a few thinly-veiled barbs at the US in there, but surprisingly few. Also surprising was that the entire event -- including the dance party -- was amazingly family-friendly. The head of the organization was actually on the stage with his young kids and wife dancing during the evening.
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I don't care if it makes sense -- only if it makes money. -- Me
Bank (n): See scam, fraud and theft. Eat a bankster -- they're low-carb.
What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?
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Jonesapple10
Posts: 379
Incept: 2010-11-09
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I'm glad you do what you SHOULD do in spending QUALITY time with your daughter.
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Workerbee
Posts: 1398
Incept: 2009-03-18
* Winter is Coming *
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Well I think driving to DC - taking daughter & friend wouldn't have been much more painful than taking daughter & friend to Orlando for a screamo concert a few weeks ago.
Just because you don't enjoy the music/cause doesn't mean you cannot support your kid.
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Prepare for Our Valley Forge
*~* Appeal to Heaven *~*
...that those "who having no appeal on earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such cases, an appeal to heaven." ~John Locke
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Antipas
Posts: 74
Incept: 2007-08-23
Cle Elum, WA
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Yes some of it is "tin foil hat" carp, but follow the money
Exposed: Kony 2012 Scam Is a Soros/NGO Front
Alex Jones & Aaron Dykes
Prison Planet.com
March 15, 2012
Kony 2012, hyped on the backs of celebrities and do-gooders, is revealed for what it is– a propaganda salvo for a continent wide invasion of Africa. Yes, the mantra War is Peace is once again drumming U.S. soldiers into further conflict.
Research makes clear that KONY is a sophisticated psy-op to muster popular support for what is, in reality, nothing more than a geostrategic positioning vis-a-vis China for oil and mineral resources, as well as an effort to legitimize the U.S. military’s AFRICOM unit in the region through newly-branded “humanitarian” interventions.
It is not only War in the name of “Peace,” but an attempt to empower the International Criminal Court under the influence of NGOs and other related globalist corporate interests.
Nobel Peace Prize “winner” Barack Obama has already deployed 100 special forces troops to the central African region back in October 2011, and a resolution in Congress– on the heels of KONY 2012′s viral views of at lest 80 million– seeks to send more forces there for an all out invasion on the pretext of hunting down a shadowy warlord with less blood on his hands than an average African despot.
Top celebrities vying for greater power including CFR member and UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie, actor George Clooney, media baroness Oprah Winfrey, as well as Africa-obsessed Bill Gates and Bono, have all come out in front of this issue.
Exposed: Kony 2012 Scam Is a Soros/NGO Front Soros ICG Samantha Power Angelina Jolie KONY
But behind KONY’s apparent urgency are the usual suspects, the hidden hands behind uprisings and color revolutions including the Arab Spring and Libyan invasion. A key World Net Daily investigation makes clear that George Soros and his International Crisis Group, headed by former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the likes of Samantha Power, a key member of Obama’s National Security Council advancing “humanitarian” causes, have significantly framed and shaped the manufactured crisis surrounding the now-famous head of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Like Libya, the Responsibility to Protect doctrine– created and advanced by Soros, Samantha Power and other power players– gives the impetus for intervention in the conflict. Groups like Invisible Children, who produced KONY 2012, are pawns in their game.
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Howardnyc
Posts: 132
Incept: 2007-11-01
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so karl, we can expect to see some video of you dancing, right?
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kd told me (and i believe him) that
"We (Americans) deserve a Depression."
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Genesis
Posts: 130663
Incept: 2007-06-26
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Well, not from from my camera, but I did get some rather interesting video from the middle of the mosh of crowd-surfing. So yes, I was in the middle of it -- with some pretty expensive gear -- and got out both alive and with my gear intact 
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I don't care if it makes sense -- only if it makes money. -- Me
Bank (n): See scam, fraud and theft. Eat a bankster -- they're low-carb.
What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?
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Grassranger
Posts: 14
Incept: 2009-10-10
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Thumbs up to you Karl and also to all the positive commenters above.
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Genesis
Posts: 130663
Incept: 2007-06-26
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I don't care if it makes sense -- only if it makes money. -- Me
Bank (n): See scam, fraud and theft. Eat a bankster -- they're low-carb.
What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?
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Smacktle
Posts: 1358
Incept: 2009-01-20
Texas
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Supporting my son in Cub Scouts as a den leader is some of the hardest work I've ever been involved with. He seems to like it and I'm hoping it takes.
The biggest problem is dealing with the parents. I feeling like a friggin counselor sometimes! The kids are great.
Do we really want to see Karl dancing?!
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Friar_tuck
Posts: 1118
Incept: 2008-01-09
N. Cal
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Karl you really oughta look into this horse****...
It's just political posturing for more AFRICOM infestation.
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