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Old 08-27-2013, 08:51 AM
 
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The GOP specializes in self-inflicted wounds.
I personally think Lewis Black said it best when he said the Republicans are the party of bad ideas and the Democrats are the party of no ideas.
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Old 08-27-2013, 10:23 AM
 
Location: Wicker Park/East Village area
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I personally think Lewis Black said it best when he said the Republicans are the party of bad ideas and the Democrats are the party of no ideas.
I thought Alan Jourgenson was dead on with the lines

"In the Tory, or the Labor camps, well it's the same
Republican or Democrat, but it's still the same to me
Go to Lenin or Marx, it doesn't matter
Starve the people while the rich get fatter
Can't you see they got us where they want us?
Can't you see the enemy here is you?"
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Old 08-28-2013, 07:04 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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I spoke with one of the officers in the 14th district about this yesterday- it was one rail rider beating up another rail rider over one of the female rail riders. Good news is, with fall coming, they'll be leaving soon.
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Old 08-29-2013, 07:24 AM
 
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I spoke with one of the officers in the 14th district about this yesterday- it was one rail rider beating up another rail rider over one of the female rail riders. Good news is, with fall coming, they'll be leaving soon.
What is a rail rider?
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Old 08-29-2013, 07:26 AM
 
Location: Upper West Side, Manhattan, NYC
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What is a rail rider?
Pretty sure he/she is referring to the traveling homeless "gutter punks."
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Old 08-29-2013, 07:33 AM
 
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Pretty sure he/she is referring to the traveling homeless "gutter punks."
Thanks, I just learned the term "gutter punk" within the last month.
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Old 08-29-2013, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Pretty sure he/she is referring to the traveling homeless "gutter punks."
She. And yes. Rail riders is the older term for them (and when I say older, I mean what people have been calling them for the past two or three years). Gutter punks seems to be the new name this year.
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Old 08-29-2013, 08:54 AM
 
Location: Chicago - Logan Square
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I spoke with one of the officers in the 14th district about this yesterday- it was one rail rider beating up another rail rider over one of the female rail riders. Good news is, with fall coming, they'll be leaving soon.
Yep. Details are here.
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Old 08-29-2013, 09:01 AM
 
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Thanks, I just learned the term "gutter punk" within the last month.
I think that they were referred to as "hobos" a couple generations ago...
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Old 08-29-2013, 09:20 AM
 
Location: Wicker Park/East Village area
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She. And yes. Rail riders is the older term for them (and when I say older, I mean what people have been calling them for the past two or three years). Gutter punks seems to be the new name this year.
Uh..... no.... everyone I know has been using gutter punks since the mid 90's for those kids.
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