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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:23 PM
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Poll question: Who should be added to Mt. Rushmore?
Last night I heard Grover Norquist going on about his crusade to add Reagan to Mt. Rushmore.

What do you think? Who, if anyone, should be added?



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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:26 PM
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1. We RAPED a sacred mountain to put the four that are there already.
Edited on Fri Jun-11-04 03:55 PM by LittleApple81
On edit: I had said three and there are actually four... ooops.

We desecrated land sacred to the American Indians. We should TAKE DOWN WHATEVER HEADS ARE THERE IN HONOR OF THE INDIANS, if any modification is desired.
Besides, I hear that those heads are crumbling?
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:27 PM
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2. There's four.
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:52 PM
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11. Thanks. stand corrected. n/t
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:28 PM
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3. Yup.... you are right on all counts...
Any attempt to muck with it right now will send the whole thing crashing down into a gravel pile...
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:35 PM
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7. Out of couriosity...
Who is "We"?
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:54 PM
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12. We the people. When the government did it apparently not too many
people minded. I was not around, sorry, and I don't know if I could have done anything about it.
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 06:54 PM
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25. I agree
so let's let them crumble. Maybe a minor earthquake will take care of it.
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Martin Eden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 12:52 AM
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31. The BLACK HILLS were indeed sacred ground
Guaranteed to native Americans by treaty forever, until Custer led gold prospectors and their greed to pry these lands away.

Then we marked our territory with images of the "great fathers" whose government is responsible for the dispossession and slaughter.

A constant source of national pride.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:30 PM
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4. yeah, none... that friggin mountain was
desecrated just to rub sh*t & piss in the face of the Native Americans that once called it their home...
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:31 PM
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5. jello biafra!
Edited on Fri Jun-11-04 03:33 PM by vickiss
seriously, the mt. should have been left alone to begin with
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:33 PM
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6. Bill the Cat!
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Momof1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:35 PM
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8. Johnny Cash
Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.

I wear the black for those who never read,
Or listened to the words that Jesus said,
About the road to happiness through love and charity,
Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.

Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.

I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.

And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen' that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen' that we all were on their side.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin' everywhere you go,
But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You'll never see me wear a suit of white.

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.
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parasim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:39 PM
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9. Geronimo
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Jeff in Cincinnati Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 06:39 PM
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24. Doesn't he already have a monument
In Georgia maybe?
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parasim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 12:41 AM
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29. Well, the dudes up there now (Rushmore)...
... have more than one, i presume.
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flakey_foont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:41 PM
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10. Krusty the Klown
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MichaelHarris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 03:59 PM
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13. Pamala Anderson
Its called a bust isn't it?
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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 04:18 PM
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19. There ain't that much mountain left
for her BOOBS!
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 04:11 PM
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14. Well... NSMA's Puckering Butthole Before Ronald Reagan, That's Fo Sho !!!
Other than that, leave the mountain alone!!!

:bounce::evilgrin::bounce:
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 04:12 PM
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15. toss up for me between. . .
Lisa Simpson (idealist) &

Jon Stewart (the great truth sayer)

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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 04:18 PM
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18. Jon
I would visit it ever day and kiss the tiny masterpiece that is Jon.
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 04:15 PM
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16. Clinton's penis, the Repubs seem to have some weird hero
worship of it, so I'm sure they wouldn't mind.

Can you imagine that? See Johnny, that's George Washington, Tom Jefferson, there's Honest Abe, and that's the Rough Rider himself. Oh that, that's the most powerful thing ever in American politics, that's Willie's Willie.
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 06:27 PM
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22. I originally had "Clinton's Penis" in the poll
And then I chickened out.

I see it as being as massive as the Washington monument . . .
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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 04:17 PM
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17. Other
Nobody -- Instead build a giant statue of an erect Bill Clinton across from GOP headquarters

Let's hear it for the Clenis (and the Clagina)!!!!!!!
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 04:23 PM
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20. mmmmm....Clenis.....
:loveya:
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rustydog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 04:45 PM
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21. Message just in from Jesus: Hey, you christian rightists
Thou shall not worship any graven image.end of message.
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kodi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 06:34 PM
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23. martin luther king, jr
.
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Gothic Sponge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 06:57 PM
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26. Pee Wee Herman!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 07:06 PM
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27. Nobody...Rushmore's an abomination to begin with
Why screw up the land more?
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russian33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-04 08:14 PM
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28. For all of the anti-Communism nonsense they spew...
..they sure don't act it...this is exactly what happened in USSR, Lenin was on money, in a freakin masoleum waxed up for everyone to see (hey, why don't they do that?), statues, buildings, streets...personality cult...get over it, bury the guy, you already have an airport and a federal building...geesh!
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 12:44 AM
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30. Frank Zappa
otherwise, leave it alone.
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chaska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 01:29 AM
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32. You know, I just love that idea about brother Ray on Rushmore.
Let's push this. Spread it around.
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