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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:09 PM
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It's 2006 already,what will the catchy name for this decade be?
It's been an unpleasant decade so far.
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queenbdem87 Donating Member (233 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:11 PM
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1. we can call it
Decade of the Sheeple!
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:12 PM
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4. The Gilded Age 2.0 n/t
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:24 PM
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14. minus the expansion
the Gilded Age was an industrial revolution that founded modern America. Today's period, if not a recession is pretty much the contrary. So the comparison is accurate regarding the Robber Barons, corruption etc... but not the rest...
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:49 PM
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18. How 'bout the gelded age?

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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 10:02 PM
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22. I've been bandying that about, actually
Though I fear we may have more in common with the Roaring 20s.
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:11 PM
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2. The Noughties?
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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:11 PM
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3. Looks like the War decade, sadly enough
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tlsmith1963 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:15 PM
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5. Worst Decade Ever
That's what I would call it.

Tammy
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Fountain79 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:16 PM
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7. I think those who survived the black plague or the civil war...
Edited on Sat Mar-11-06 09:16 PM by Fountain79
would disagree with you.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:15 PM
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6. Hopefully, "The Downfall of the American Empire"
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One Voice Donating Member (334 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:16 PM
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8. The decade of democracy destruction !
Brought to you by; RepubliCONS
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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:17 PM
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9. Armegeddon has a ring . . .
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:20 PM
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10. America's Fascist Period.
or if we're lucky, The New Awakening.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:21 PM
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11. The Beginning of the Age of Totalitarianism
or perhaps the Age of BushPutinism.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:21 PM
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12. The Decade of the Zeroes
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:21 PM
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13. A Shitty Way to Kick Off the 21st Century n/t
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jokerman93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:25 PM
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15. The Less than Zero Decade n/t
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:32 PM
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16. The Ought Nots
Ought not to have had the W administration, ought not to have ignored climate changes, etc.
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:33 PM
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17. Hopeless. nt
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:52 PM
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19. "The Shithole Generation"
Just kidding

should be the years of the asswipe
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European Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 09:58 PM
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20. At least Hitler was elected.
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KyuzoGator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 10:01 PM
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21. Renaissance 2.
Hopefully it will be the decade America woke the fuck up and realized there are actually other people we share this planet with.
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NightOwwl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 10:05 PM
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23. Unless we can take back the house and/or senate in 2006...
The beginning of the end.
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 10:08 PM
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24. The Horror...The Horror
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 10:24 PM
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25. The Dumbed-Down Decade. n/t
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mia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 10:25 PM
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26. The Age of Treason
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010205/bugliosi
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Not Sure Donating Member (334 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 10:51 PM
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27. How about the "Oh's"
as in, "Oh no! Another impeachable crime!" or "Oh shit! Another war!" or "Oh, God, please just send one bolt of lightning down on that putz..."
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momster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 07:46 AM
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28. Flirting With Fascism
is how they'll describe it in the history books. I just hope and pray the paragraph ends with, "and then they snapped out of it."
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Minnesota Libra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-12-06 07:49 AM
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29. It will be the decade of the "Bush Crime Family" and.......
.....they should be tried under racketeering laws too.:toast:
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