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Old 02-23-2013, 10:18 AM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Originally Posted by italianuser View Post
The poorest parts of Italy aren't as crime-ridden as the poorest parts of USA.
The life expectancy is also longer.
And food is better.
Your reply has created quite the conundrum for your average FOX watching, flag waving, low information conservative:

A) Do I exercise my nationalist tendency where I shriek the U.S. is the greatest country on earth and say that the poorest parts of America are better than the poorest parts of ITALY?

B) By doing so, I am taking low income parts of America, many slum like ghettos, and saying those neighborhoods are not so bad after all, after spending most of my time on this forum railing against the poor minorities who are forced by economic circumstance to reside there?

That can get your average conservative all twisted into an ideological knot that he will have to help in freeing himself from....
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Old 02-23-2013, 10:20 AM
 
Location: 9851 Meadowglen Lane, Apt 42, Houston Texas
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Your reply has created quite the conundrum for your average FOX watching, flag waving, low information conservative:

A) Do I exercise my nationalist tendency where I shriek the U.S. is the greatest country on earth and say that the poorest parts of America are better than the poorest parts of ITALY?

B) By doing so, I am taking low income parts of America, many slum like ghettos, and saying those neighborhoods are not so bad after all, after spending most of my time on this forum railing against poor blacks?

That can get your average conservative all twisted into an ideological knot that he will have to help in freeing himself from....
Check yourself, idiot.

I said those comments, and I live in a poor black neighborhood of Houston.
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Old 02-23-2013, 10:22 AM
 
Location: 9851 Meadowglen Lane, Apt 42, Houston Texas
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Check which party the mayors are. Elected by the citizens of those cities.
That's just the mayor of the city proper. Houston proper makes about 1/3 of the entire metro. You can't go ahead and ignore the Republican suburbs when discussing the health of a city. The health of a city does not begin or end inside the city limits.
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Old 02-23-2013, 10:23 AM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Winter in the Rockies is a bit different than that of the midwest. There is more sun and it's warm. The snow is more of a powder instead of slush. And then you got majestic mountains to play in.
You managed to get one thing right on this thread. I'd say you are on a roll.
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Old 02-23-2013, 10:27 AM
 
Location: Texas
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That's just the mayor of the city proper. Houston proper makes about 1/3 of the entire metro. You can't go ahead and ignore the Republican suburbs when discussing the health of a city. The health of a city does not begin or end inside the city limits.
The Forbes list does exactly that.
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Old 02-23-2013, 10:28 AM
 
Location: 9851 Meadowglen Lane, Apt 42, Houston Texas
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You managed to get one thing right on this thread. I'd say you are on a roll.
It's better to get one thing right then everything wrong, as your trackrecord in this thread of accusing me of being:

FOX watching
flag waiving
railing against poor black people

Anyone familiar with me would tell you couldn't get it more wrong if you tried.
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Old 02-23-2013, 10:30 AM
 
Location: 9851 Meadowglen Lane, Apt 42, Houston Texas
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The Forbes list does exactly that.
The Forbes list never held any weight. It's just a bunch of New Yorkers being bored.
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Old 02-23-2013, 10:34 AM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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It's better to get one thing right then everything wrong, as your trackrecord in this thread of accusing me of being:

FOX watching
flag waiving
railing against poor black people

Anyone familiar with me would tell you couldn't get it more wrong if you tried.
Except that I was not replying to you when I said those things, so you must have a guilty conscience, or reading comprehension issues.

Likely both.
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Old 02-23-2013, 10:38 AM
 
Location: 9851 Meadowglen Lane, Apt 42, Houston Texas
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Except that I was not replying to you when I said those things, so you must have a guilty conscience, or reading comprehension issues.

Likely both.
No, I have neither. You referenced my comments. I don't need you to address me directly. I know that you being the passive aggressive type probably won't.
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Old 02-23-2013, 10:38 AM
 
Location: Bethesda, MD
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Because President Obama is from there, and you can't associate him with anythng negative.
Actually, Obama is technically from Hawaii, since that's where he was born and primarily raised. However, his political stomping ground is Chicago. Essentially, he came of age in the windy (corrupt) city of Chicago...
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