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Canned Cokes are still 65 cents in my local gubmint vending machines.*
They're closing the NASA post office and keeping the one on the Army side.
Actually they're run by a local beverage distributor (who probably has some minority/female/veteran/native American sole-source contract).
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"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!"Originally Posted by GermanSynergy
"Let them eat cake!"
One of the reasons for the creation of one of the greatest killing machines of all time. . .the Guillotine.
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To them it pretty much is... and that's the problem.
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FYI she never actually said that"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!"
"Let them eat cake!"
One of the reasons for the creation of one of the greatest killing machines of all time. . .the Guillotine.
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If you are refering to Marie Anoinette then yes, she never said that. However there is a historical record of an unknown European elitist saying something to that effect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions a variation in his autobiographical 'Confessions', where he relates the story of how he, on trying to find food, remembered the words of a great princess who, upon hearing that the country peasants had no bread, coldly said "let them eat cake/pastry". He was writing in 1766-7, before Marie came to France. Furthermore, in a 1791 memoir Louis XVIII claims that Marie-Thérèse of Austria, wife of Louis XIV, used a variation of the phrase ("let them eat pastry") a hundred years before.
"In a nut shell, if it ever goes to Civil War, I'm afraid I'll be in the middle 70%, shooting at both sides" — 26 Inf
"We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them." — CNN's Don Lemon 10/30/18
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Didn't "cake" also mean the scraps left over after bakers finished all their other baking?
Leave the guns...bring the cannolis.
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The unproductive sector of the economy at its finest, and most treasonous.
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They probably have to keep separate paperwork on each muffin and cookie and be able to trace its history from conception to final disposition. In triplicate. That is one reason the gov overspends on everything.
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That, and some asshole Congresscritter probably sponsored a pork-barrel appropriations bill that mandated the agency by muffins from a preferred vendor who happens to be a big campaign contributor.
Remember, EVERY government agency was created by Congress. Any over-reaching regulation is the result of Congress abdicating its responsibilities to govern.
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