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To: tejek who wrote (722965)	6/27/2013 2:21:18 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578511

>> I have never said northerners were pure in this matter. But they were smart enough not to fight in defense of slavery. There is every reason to believe the entire thing would have been reversed had the North been agriculturally based. You see, it wasn't really about the slavery. It was about states rights, it was about whose ox was being gored, it was about economics; and slavery, per-se, was pretty far down the list.

To: tejek who wrote (722965)	6/27/2013 7:24:59 AM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Recommended By longnshort Respond to of 1578511

(hat tip uw) Did you hear about - Bob: "Did you hear about the Obama administration scandal?" Jim: "You mean the Mexican gun running?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "You mean SEAL Team 6 Extortion 17?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "You mean the State Dept. lying about Benghazi ?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "You mean the voter fraud?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "You mean the military not getting their votes counted?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "You mean the president demoralizing and breaking down the military?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "You mean the Boston Bombing?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "You mean the president wanting to kill Americans with drones in our own country without the benefit of the law?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "You mean the president arming the Muslim Brotherhood?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "The IRS targeting conservatives?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "The DOJ spying on the press?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "The NSA monitoring our phone calls, e-mails and everything else?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "The president's ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants from jails and prisons and falsely blaming the sequester?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "The president's threat to impose gun control by Executive Order in order to bypass Congress?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "The president's repeated violation of the law requiring him to submit a budget no later than the first Monday in February?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "The president's unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to circumvent the Senate's advise-and-consent role?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "The State Department interfering with an Inspector General investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "HHS employees being given insider information on Medicare Advantage?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "Clinton, the IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?" Bob: "No, the other one." Jim: "I give up! ... Oh wait, I think I got it! You mean that 65 million low-information voters stuck us again with the most corrupt administration in American history?" Bob: "THAT'S THE ONE!"

To: tejek who wrote (722965)	6/27/2013 10:21:03 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578511

One third of union members want out of organized labor One out of three union households in the United States would leave their labor groups if given the chance, according to a new survey. Sponsors of National Employee Freedom Week surveyed more than 10,000 union households across the country asking them if they were aware of Beck Rights—the freedom to opt out of unions—and what they would do if they could leave their union “without penalty or threat of losing your job.” More than 33 percent of all unions households said that they’d leave the union if given the chance, including more than 36 percent in heavily unionized California and 44 percent in right-to-work state Utah. “Numbers were high in both kinds of states and that experience is the whole point of the week. Unions are going to either prove their value or suffer the consequences,” said NEFW executive director Victor Joecks.