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Re: Birthday!
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 1:26 pm
by Minimalist
Digit wrote:But I'm not there Min.
The people of central America who cross, legally or otherwise into the US, or from the sub continent into the UK do so in the hope of a better life.
The same reason that Europeans colonised North America and the antipodes, the same reason that my grandparents came here. I fail to see how stating such facts can in any manner be seen as racist.
Roy.
But the yahoos we have here who want to shoot them at the border are. Apples and oranges, my friend.
Re: Birthday!
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 1:47 pm
by Digit
But the yahoos we have here who want to shoot them at the border are.
Send 'em to Korea, they can line the border with them.
I wonder who's gonna blink first?
Roy.
Re: Birthday!
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 1:53 pm
by Minimalist
Ah....I see where you are missing the point.
They want someone else to shoot them. They don't want to get their hands dirty.
Re: Birthday!
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 2:04 pm
by Digit
Gotcha!
BTW, have you read my post Parliament? Right up your street I think.
Roy.
Re: Birthday!
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 4:27 pm
by Minimalist
Yes... indeed I did.
BTW, the New Hampshire Gazette maintains what they call the "Chickenhawk Database." A chickenhawk is someone who loves war but, when they had the chance to actually serve, chose to be elsewhere.
Oddly, (or again, perhaps not-so-oddly) a lot of Chickenhawks are republicans.
http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html
Re: Birthday!
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 4:53 pm
by Digit
Although it is many years ago Min our War Department, as it was then, issued a Service Medal during WW1 to all men who had served in any of the forces and had subsequently been invalided out.
The men wore the medal, unusually, in civilian dress, to stop, mainly young women, publicly presenting them with a white feather.
Roy.
Re: Birthday!
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 6:28 pm
by Minimalist
Very civilized, you Brits!
Re: Birthday!
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 6:48 pm
by uniface
A chickenhawk is someone who loves war but, when they had the chance to actually serve, chose to be elsewhere.
It's also a common slang term for a male homosexual who molests prepubescent boys.
Just thought you'd want to know
Re: Birthday!
Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 7:48 pm
by Minimalist
I didn't know that. I thought "a male homosexual who molests prepubescent boys" was called "Father?"
Re: Birthday!
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 7:38 am
by uniface
Re: Birthday!
Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 2:48 pm
by uniface
I think, and our initial forays into the concept suggest, that the direction of that shift will ultimately be towards global unification.
And as we speak,
f current trends continue, it doesn't take much imagination to foresee a future where the entire U.S. banking industry has been consolidated down to between 5 and 10 "superbanks".
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/arch ... -s-history