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11-14-2018, 06:51 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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I can't believe 25% of voters are evangelicals. That is disturbing.
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11-14-2018, 07:32 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I can't believe 25% of voters are evangelicals. That is disturbing.
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They’re very into voting. I’d guess more than 50% of Evangelicals vote in every election.
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11-14-2018, 07:53 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
They’re very into voting. I’d guess more than 50% of Evangelicals vote in every election.
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More than 50%? They let their woman vote?
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11-14-2018, 10:25 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
More than 50%? They let their woman vote?
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Women if Mormon splinter polygamists count as evangelicals.
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11-16-2018, 01:58 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
Growing up we hardly had cereal to eat. But my grandma was here without papers so that might explain it?
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11-16-2018, 02:27 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Growing up we hardly had cereal to eat. But my grandma was here without papers so that might explain it?
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I assumed my great-grandfather had papers, but maybe not. How would they get into the country on a boat from Europe without papers?
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11-16-2018, 02:39 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I assumed my great-grandfather had papers, but maybe not. How would they get into the country on a boat from Europe without papers?
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I expect graft, but people also jumped off boats.
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11-16-2018, 03:14 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I expect graft, but people also jumped off boats.
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DYK how your grand-mother arrived? My grandfather came on a ship from Hamburg, and got to St Louis. I assumed he said up the Mississippi, but maybe he got off the ship in New York and took a train.
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11-16-2018, 03:20 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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11-16-2018, 04:06 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
DYK how your grand-mother arrived? My grandfather came on a ship from Hamburg, and got to St Louis. I assumed he said up the Mississippi, but maybe he got off the ship in New York and took a train.
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NYC not sure how she got in though. There is an intense play about Itie immigrants in the 50s sneaking in. My g-pa was here with papers so he might have. Greased some wheels.
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11-17-2018, 10:32 AM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
I always assumed my ancestors didn't really need any "papers" back in the 19th century and before, although somewhere we have my great-great-grandpa's discharge papers from the Prussian army.
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11-17-2018, 01:59 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Adder
I always assumed my ancestors didn't really need any "papers" back in the 19th century and before, although somewhere we have my great-great-grandpa's discharge papers from the Prussian army.
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There weren’t probably, especially for a German. My gpa got to NYC in 1922. The knucklehead dumped his Iris citizenship* and became US immediately. He sent for my gma in 1928. Problem: in 1924 Congress passed a law essentially stopping all Italian immigration. I don’t know she was w/o papers, but she was dirt poor and most people that did get in were w/o.
*I know because if he was still an Italian when my mommy was born I could get Itie dual citizenship and an EC passport. My mom remembered helping her mom study for the citizenship test test so I was hopeful gap might have waited a bit, but he didn’t. And the country is so patriarchial that my Gmail doesn’t matter.
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11-17-2018, 03:01 PM
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This post for Hank's pleasure.
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11-17-2018, 05:24 PM
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Re: This post for Hank's pleasure.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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This i don't get. it's a real ad for a movie?
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11-17-2018, 08:31 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: This post for Hank's pleasure.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
This i don't get. it's a real ad for a movie?
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Sometimes I'm not really sure I understand the kids these days, but I believe there is a thing where people use the Photoshop or its functional equivalents to change the words on images of stuff, and I believe that the green background of those Grinchy billboards make an ideal canvas for that sort of artwork.
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