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01-27-2011, 08:34 PM
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Ripple Effect
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984. 
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01-27-2011, 08:43 PM
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boston tea party
whiskey creek (located near mayan lake, fort lauderdale)
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01-27-2011, 08:55 PM
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Did you know the Boston tea party wasn't a protest over a raise in tariffs on tea, but was over a reduction in the tax?
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01-27-2011, 08:58 PM
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i thought it was because of the monopoly created by the east india co and the english govt, as well as a general protest against all the intolerable acts...
there's a name-intolerable acts
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01-27-2011, 09:08 PM
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Felix Unger talking to Oscar Madison: "Your horse could finish third by 20 lengths and they still pay you? And you have been losing money for all these years?!"
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01-27-2011, 09:08 PM
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red right returning (anyone familiar with buoys and returning to port will get that one)
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01-27-2011, 09:16 PM
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From a recent book I just read, however, we have.... "Another great event in the history of the United States is the infamous Boston Tea Party. You know the story. On December 16, 1773, a group of colonists, angry at paying higher taxes on their tea, dressed up like Indians and dumped crates of tea bricks belonging to the British East India Company into the Boston Harbor. Not sure why we're so proud of an act of vandalism, but that's beside the point. The point is, the Tea Act, which the colonists were supposedly angry about, actually reduced the duty on British tea imported to America. So why did they really revolt? Because once British tea was affordable, it would ruin America's lucrative trade in black-market tea, because three-fourths of the tea sold in America was smuggled in by John Hancock. Now the whole idea of dressing up like Indians makes sense, doesn't it?" This is readily verified.
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01-27-2011, 09:21 PM
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yeah, there were huge smuggling operations going on-tea as well as other goods. and some people are bored by history....i love it.
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