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Post #20,388

by a6l6e6x

12/5/01 5:42:03 PM

The Cubans you decry send $800 million per year to their...

relatives in Cuba, thus propping up that dictatorship. A little irony there.

Alex

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Post #20,400

by Ashton

12/5/01 7:30:57 PM

Of course there's irony! They are People!

Familia trumps the hierarchy Every Time. D'Oh.

And of course.. there is no more 'the average Calle Ocho ex-pat' than.. that other mythical beast, The Murican Peepul.

{sheesh}
I mean simply: the Murican juvenile preoccupation, spin, Hatred! for Fidel == the entire Israel Question too! Stupid Fucking Slogans R'Us (too).

Just as the cold war distilled All Nations\ufffd into daily reciting mantras of Hatred <> EZ Slogans about the sub-humans: their 'adversary' yada yada. It's what juveniles do. And this species demonstrates hourly: it's teen-age acne in all spheres. The mass don't need Gibbon or Dostoyevsky or ___ they gots Dan Rather and Tee Vee. And we get this doggerel.

Meanwhile: the Corporations run the mess for their banal (but ever so simple) aim - all that heavy yellow shiny metal. (or that oozy black fluid, just a surrogate for the metal -and now digital- form).

A.

More jingoism and oddly, similarities - (TTC) - (36) - Dec. 4, 2001, 04:55:03 PM EST

Re: More jingoism and oddly, similarities - (bluke) - (1) - Dec. 5, 2001, 07:59:36 AM EST

Re: More jingoism and oddly, similarities - (TTC) - Dec. 5, 2001, 08:56:34 AM EST

Do you have anything resembling a point? - (Silverlock) - (11) - Dec. 5, 2001, 08:36:44 AM EST

Re: Do you have anything resembling a point? - (TTC) - (10) - Dec. 5, 2001, 08:59:54 AM EST

Ah thats no fun... - (bepatient) - (8) - Dec. 5, 2001, 09:18:29 AM EST

Re: Ah thats no fun... - (TTC) - (7) - Dec. 5, 2001, 11:02:44 AM EST

Devil's advocacy doesn't build understanding. - (Another Scott) - (6) - Dec. 5, 2001, 11:17:24 AM EST

Re: Devil's advocacy doesn't build understanding. - (TTC) - (5) - Dec. 5, 2001, 11:44:44 AM EST

Interesting. - (bepatient) - (4) - Dec. 5, 2001, 01:19:25 PM EST

One point about food and medicine - (jake123) - (3) - Dec. 5, 2001, 03:11:07 PM EST

On Nicaragua - (bepatient) - (2) - Dec. 5, 2001, 05:22:45 PM EST

So the US has no blame whatsoever? - (Simon_Jester) - (1) - Dec. 5, 2001, 08:07:10 PM EST

No - (bepatient) - Dec. 5, 2001, 08:23:42 PM EST

Re: Keeping mum. - (Silverlock) - Dec. 5, 2001, 09:29:14 AM EST

Yup, we're keeping mum. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Dec. 5, 2001, 11:28:01 AM EST

ya wanna keep my mum too? - (boxley) - Dec. 5, 2001, 08:12:34 PM EST

OK, I'm confused - (tuberculosis) - (7) - Dec. 5, 2001, 04:06:29 PM EST

Thought we were making lease payments on Guantanamo. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - Dec. 5, 2001, 04:31:56 PM EST

I set up shop in a room in your house... - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Dec. 5, 2001, 04:40:55 PM EST

not if you were white:) - (boxley) - Dec. 5, 2001, 08:15:05 PM EST

Re: Thought we were making lease payments on Guantanamo. - (tuberculosis) - Dec. 5, 2001, 05:56:15 PM EST

Typically too - (Ashton) - (2) - Dec. 5, 2001, 05:16:54 PM EST

The Cubans you decry send $800 million per year to their... - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Dec. 5, 2001, 05:42:03 PM EST

Of course there's irony! They are People! - (Ashton) - Dec. 5, 2001, 07:30:57 PM EST

I don't see the problem - (mhuber) - (11) - Dec. 5, 2001, 08:45:46 PM EST

Re: I don't see the problem - (TTC) - (10) - Dec. 5, 2001, 09:20:19 PM EST

Let's talk about this --- - (Ric Locke) - Dec. 5, 2001, 09:56:22 PM EST

Carpet bombing with 29 civilian casualties? - (Andrew Grygus) - Dec. 6, 2001, 12:21:12 AM EST

You've hit on an important point... - (screamer) - (7) - Dec. 6, 2001, 10:09:47 AM EST

Ah, you forget TTC still waves Red China's hammer and sicle. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Dec. 6, 2001, 10:17:26 AM EST

Re: You've hit on an important point... - (TTC) - (2) - Dec. 6, 2001, 02:41:44 PM EST

Actually, you are probably right - (screamer) - (1) - Dec. 6, 2001, 05:45:32 PM EST

Re: Actually, you are probably right - (TTC) - Dec. 6, 2001, 11:52:55 PM EST

Al punte mon fr\ufffdre: No Balance of Power today exists.. - (Ashton) - (2) - Dec. 6, 2001, 05:38:53 PM EST

Balance... - (screamer) - Dec. 6, 2001, 05:58:43 PM EST

Next Stop Rollerball :( -NT - (boxley) - Dec. 6, 2001, 06:24:03 PM EST

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