Re: [MBZ] OT Venezuela situation

2018-02-11 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
A Decade At The Top? www.imdb.com/title/tt0075602/ > On February 11, 2018 at 6:14 PM clay monroe via Mercedes > wrote: > > > The tree of Liberty does need to be watered regularly. > > I propose that all people who aspire to leadership positions or political >

Re: [MBZ] OT Venezuela situation

2018-02-11 Thread clay monroe via Mercedes
The tree of Liberty does need to be watered regularly. I propose that all people who aspire to leadership positions or political chicanery should be allowed to go as high as they can within ten years. At the end of that period, they are taken out for the crowds to witness their execution.

Re: [MBZ] OT Venezuela situation

2018-02-11 Thread clay monroe via Mercedes
That is not the saying among those who lived there. The land is a wonder, the people far less so. I, and many other former residents, suspect it has to do with the betrayal of Simon Bolivar by those in what is now Venezuela. clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei 1982

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2018-02-11 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Yes I am going to capitalize on that bit of social recognition. --R Sent from iPhone > On Feb 11, 2018, at 5:24 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > wrote: > > That is an opportunity to teach her. What they call a "Teachable Moment."

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2018-02-11 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
That is an opportunity to teach her. What they call a "Teachable Moment." Funny how people who love to spend OPM falter when Unk Sam wants to excise money form them. And it would have been hilarious if it weren't so sick, how the congresscritters howled when they learned they would also

Re: [MBZ] OT Venezuela situation

2018-02-11 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
On a peripheral note, my daughter today realized she is going to have to write a check for the first time to Unkie Sam come April. Being more towards the left side of center than I am, I had expected she would welcome this opportunity to support the gummint wisdom and programs, but alas this is

Re: [MBZ] OT Venezuela situation

2018-02-11 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
There, I fixed it. Credit where credit is due. Fred Moir via Mercedes February 11, 2018 at 11:29 AM We have met the enemy and he is us. (Pogo) Fred Moir. Lynn MA. Diesel preferred. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search

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2018-02-11 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
True Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Feb 11, 2018 2:10 PM, "Curt Raymond via Mercedes" wrote: > Millennials take a lot of flack where the people saying "I do not recall" > are baby boomers... > -Curt > > > > > ___

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2018-02-11 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
True Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Feb 11, 2018 2:10 PM, "Curt Raymond via Mercedes" wrote: Millennials take a lot of flack where the people saying "I do not recall" are baby boomers... -Curt On Sunday, February 11, 2018, 12:20:44 PM EST, G Mann via Mercedes <

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2018-02-11 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Millennials take a lot of flack where the people saying "I do not recall" are baby boomers... -Curt On Sunday, February 11, 2018, 12:20:44 PM EST, G Mann via Mercedes wrote: In the words of one particular woman, 168 times before congress... "I do not

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2018-02-11 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
I have a very conservative friend who decries every dollar the government spends, and every tax dollar he pays, yet he was the first in line when OK offered a tax rebate for electric vehicles (bought over-grown golf cart things for running around his 40 acres) and said "Thanks, tax-payers!". On

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2018-02-11 Thread Fred Moir via Mercedes
Mountain Man Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Venezuela situation Curley wrote: > Especially OURS! We seem to have an unusually greedy crop of > congresscritters. I am guessing about 90% of them need to be replaced, > along with almost all appointees in office more than a year and a month.

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2018-02-11 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
In the words of one particular woman, 168 times before congress... "I do not recall" For myself, I have refused to participate in billions of bribe money, apparently, while making myself unavailable. ;)) Respectfully suggest that our general age group did not "raise" millennial, rather,

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2018-02-11 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Curley wrote: > Especially OURS! We seem to have an unusually greedy crop of > congresscritters. I am guessing about 90% of them need to be replaced, > along with almost all appointees in office more than a year and a month. Yes, totally. However, the same greed is rampant among the plebes.

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2018-02-10 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Especially OURS! We seem to have an unusually greedy crop of congresscritters. I am guessing about 90% of them need to be replaced, along with almost all appointees in office more than a year and a month. G Mann via Mercedes February 10, 2018 at 10:48 PM Once

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2018-02-10 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
Once upon a time there was a kingdom that had a goose that laid golden eggs. etc,etc. Seems the leaders of every thriving country needs to memorize that fairy tale. On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 9:40 PM, Craig via Mercedes wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 18:37:14 -0800 clay monroe

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2018-02-10 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 18:37:14 -0800 clay monroe via Mercedes wrote: > The people are the nastiest creatures the Good Lord could produce. Actually, the Good Lord didn't produce them; they made themselves that way. Craig ___

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2018-02-10 Thread clay monroe via Mercedes
; >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of >>> Curley McLain via Mercedes >>> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 8:40 AM >>> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >&

Re: [MBZ] OT Venezuela situation

2018-02-10 Thread clay monroe via Mercedes
One year, heck, half a year would curl the hairs of any simple minded idealist. Lack of food, potable water, something to wipe your backside with, crazed police force, and kleptocratic military. Not to mention messed up housing, rampant crime, water outages, power outages, no free press, laws

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2018-02-10 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Viva La socialismo! Viva Hugo! --R Sent from iPhone > On Feb 10, 2018, at 8:25 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes > wrote: > > Mad Max come to life. Wow. > >

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2018-02-10 Thread clay monroe via Mercedes
That place is a true S***hole. The trouble with sending ‘Merkuns down there is tossing them in with the standard locals, not those with cash. Set them up as middle class, and then they might see how messed up the Marxist Socialist ideals are. Venezuela make Soviet Russia look like a real

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2018-02-10 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Longer is better, but I figger after about 3 days, they will be begging to come home to the "awful" republic. Scott Ritchey via Mercedes February 10, 2018 at 2:53 PM Why only one year? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search

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2018-02-10 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Citgo! Which is why I would never buy any of their gasoline… There was a huge refinery on the southern end of Aruba that pretty much lived off of the Venezuelan crude that came in by tanker. -D > On Feb 10, 2018, at 8:00 PM, G Mann via Mercedes > wrote: > >

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2018-02-10 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
f Of > > Curley McLain via Mercedes > > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 8:40 AM > > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > Cc: Curley McLain <126die...@gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Venezuela situation > > > > I find it hard

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2018-02-10 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
die...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Venezuela situation > > I find it hard to believe that near half of our population prefer > venezuelan style marxism to Merkun republic form of goobermnt. I wish > we could send them to venzuela for a year. > > > Meade Dillon v

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2018-02-10 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
Lol, you mean the ones that voted for Trump? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com

Re: [MBZ] OT Venezuela situation

2018-02-10 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
I find it hard to believe that near half of our population prefer venezuelan style marxism to Merkun republic form of goobermnt. I wish we could send them to venzuela for a year. Meade Dillon via Mercedes February 10, 2018 at 7:25 AM Mad Max come to life. Wow.