Post #66,134
12/2/02 1:30:49 PM
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Definition of irony
Heard on a radio interview. They were talking about the fact that the U.S. military just discharged nine linguists, including 6 Arabic speakers, for being gay. According to someone supporting the decision: In the middle of fighting a war against religious extremism is not the time to do something offensive to God. ===
Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]
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Post #66,182
12/2/02 3:39:11 PM
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OMFG
Classic. Truly awe inspiring ignorance.
Why should we ask our military to die for cheap oil when the rest of us aren't even being asked to get better mileage?
-[link|http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14107|Molly Ivins]
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Post #66,217
12/2/02 6:16:39 PM
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Reminds me of a quote I read in the paper today...
Though not completely pertinent to the discussion, and I'm probably in the wrong forum, but anyway...
From the Letters page of the today's (December 3) Sydney Morning Herald...
"Have the agnostics or atheists ever declared war on anyone? Nuff said."
(Not much point providing a link as it appears the letters page is current only on the day the paper is published)
John. Busy lad.
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Post #66,280
12/2/02 10:02:19 PM
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Oh I dunno.
Wasn't the USSR Communist party supposed to be Athiestic? Didn't they war on other peoples? I don't have the details to hand...
Wade.
"Ah. One of the difficult questions."
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Post #66,283
12/2/02 10:10:16 PM
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Could be, and if so
There'll no doubt be plenty of letters in tomorrow's Herald...
John. Busy lad.
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Post #66,227
12/2/02 6:31:34 PM
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ROfsckingFL!
Irony can be so ironic (or so Ashton told me once...)
jb4
"They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink."
Richard Kerr, United Technologies Corporation, 1990
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Post #66,269
12/2/02 9:29:16 PM
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Shit, that was fast.
I figured Dub, Dickie, Asscroft, Rove, et. al. would turn us into a theocracy. I just didn't think it would happen this quickly.
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Post #66,325
12/3/02 12:56:26 AM
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theocracy, hope its ours :-)
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
Opera was the television of the nineteenth century:loud, vulgar and garish with plots that could only be called infantile. "Pendergast"
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Post #66,537
12/3/02 11:57:40 PM
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Perfect!__The New Tin-pot *Standard*
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