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Post #70,824
by rcareaga
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12/25/02 5:20:59 PM
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New Winding it up
(Today, incidentally, marks eleven years since the USSR closed up shop and the hammer & sickle fluttered down from over the Kremlin for the last time.) As a newbie here I was gratified and frankly astonished at the average level of civility and conscious thought exhibited in the responses to this thread. No one--no one at all, as far as I could see--took up the easy red-baiting cudgel (a long-discredited rhetorical technique that each generation seems to reinvent anew, marveling at its self-evident efficacy as a crushing riposte), and even the most trenchant rejoinders appeared to be delivered with a welcome want of hysteria. You guys are a classy bunch.

cordially,

"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
Post #70,843
by Ashton
12/25/02 7:35:12 PM
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New Don't be a stranger.. :-)
As doubtless you have noted, new blood is needed. Too often it is as silly to 'debate' political ideas here (too) as is measurable by the frequency with which the 'sides' are seen to coalesce about ~

Jingoists -VS- Comm-symp Libruls cha cha cha
(Talk about ancient rhetoric from my Gramma's time)

But at best, and through the (ulp - now years!) there have occurred memorable discussions on just about all the taboo subjects we Muricans are so fond of 'adding to the proscribed list' (Lest the Cheeldrun - non-voters all - are disturbed from their manic humming of the mantra, It's a Small Small ... Small World \ufffd).


Vaya con Diogenes,

Ashton
speaking for The Murican Peepul
When the rich assemble to concern themselves with the business of the poor, it is called Charity. When the poor assemble to concern themselves with the business of the rich, it is called Anarchy.

-Paul Richards
     Long time, no Sov - (rcareaga) - (40) - Dec. 21, 2002, 08:40:17 PM EST
         From the Left, I'm Mike Moffitt. - (mmoffitt) - (2) - Dec. 21, 2002, 09:08:24 PM EST
             Re: From the Left, I'm Mike Moffitt. - (rcareaga) - (1) - Dec. 21, 2002, 09:17:07 PM EST
                 You'd like Taosim. - (mmoffitt) - Dec. 21, 2002, 09:27:17 PM EST
         Turn that around - (ben_tilly) - (19) - Dec. 21, 2002, 09:09:21 PM EST
             Re: Turn that around - (rcareaga) - (18) - Dec. 21, 2002, 09:22:43 PM EST
                 Not begging the question - (ben_tilly) - (17) - Dec. 21, 2002, 09:30:09 PM EST
                     Re: Nuclear Holocaust. - (mmoffitt) - (8) - Dec. 21, 2002, 10:01:09 PM EST
                         Re: Nuclear Holocaust (10/62) - (rcareaga) - (7) - Dec. 21, 2002, 10:13:29 PM EST
                             I think that applies a lot. - (Brandioch) - (2) - Dec. 22, 2002, 04:58:53 PM EST
                                 f you use the word civilian in your sentence - (boxley) - (1) - Dec. 22, 2002, 05:14:51 PM EST
                                     Sorry, I didn't clarify that sufficiently. - (Brandioch) - Dec. 22, 2002, 06:47:01 PM EST
                             Re: The stakes. - (mmoffitt) - (3) - Dec. 24, 2002, 11:24:38 AM EST
                                 Defensive: an example. - (Ashton) - Dec. 24, 2002, 08:56:10 PM EST
                                 Re: The stakes. - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Dec. 25, 2002, 04:33:25 PM EST
                                     Of course! that is the "other side" - (Ashton) - Dec. 25, 2002, 07:15:10 PM EST
                     Re: Not begging the question - (rcareaga) - (7) - Dec. 21, 2002, 10:05:14 PM EST
                         I don't think that assumption of yours is right - (ben_tilly) - (6) - Dec. 21, 2002, 10:37:56 PM EST
                             Re: I don't think that assumption of yours is right - (rcareaga) - (5) - Dec. 21, 2002, 10:48:53 PM EST
                                 Um, the US needs enemies - (ben_tilly) - (4) - Dec. 21, 2002, 10:57:19 PM EST
                                     Re: Um, the US needs enemies - (rcareaga) - (3) - Dec. 21, 2002, 11:06:28 PM EST
                                         ya go for the one you can find - (boxley) - Dec. 21, 2002, 11:31:56 PM EST
                                         Does this explain...? - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Dec. 22, 2002, 02:39:58 AM EST
                                             bingo! -NT - (rcareaga) - Dec. 22, 2002, 04:22:46 AM EST
         from the fringes I'm boxley - (boxley) - (9) - Dec. 21, 2002, 10:10:28 PM EST
             an additional thought - (rcareaga) - (8) - Dec. 21, 2002, 11:21:16 PM EST
                 as you said, veritas in vino - (boxley) - (2) - Dec. 21, 2002, 11:26:59 PM EST
                     Re: as you said, veritas in vino - (rcareaga) - (1) - Dec. 22, 2002, 12:39:19 AM EST
                         betrayed bosses meaning fathers of our country :-) -NT - (boxley) - Dec. 22, 2002, 09:42:55 AM EST
                 Couldn't agree more. - (mmoffitt) - (4) - Dec. 24, 2002, 11:35:21 AM EST
                     what disney book did you read that in? -NT - (boxley) - (3) - Dec. 24, 2002, 02:38:24 PM EST
                         Being there (USSR), 5 universities, numerous lectures, etc. - (mmoffitt) - (2) - Dec. 24, 2002, 04:31:30 PM EST
                             not a prob will get to it in a bit in a new thread -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Dec. 24, 2002, 10:20:29 PM EST
                                 Here we go rebuttal to mmoffet on Founding Land Grants (new thread) - (boxley) - Dec. 24, 2002, 11:28:15 PM EST
         Methinks the method of the breakup outweighs the fact. - (Ashton) - (4) - Dec. 22, 2002, 06:25:57 AM EST
             Re: Methinks the method of the breakup outweighs the fact. - (rcareaga) - (3) - Dec. 22, 2002, 10:56:17 AM EST
                 Hmmm ____the homeopathic theory of ingrained Hate - (Ashton) - Dec. 22, 2002, 05:53:13 PM EST
                 Hitlers without end. - (Brandioch) - (1) - Dec. 22, 2002, 07:04:31 PM EST
                     But Hatred is always derived from Fear. - (Ashton) - Dec. 22, 2002, 07:55:50 PM EST
         Winding it up - (rcareaga) - (1) - Dec. 25, 2002, 05:20:59 PM EST
             Don't be a stranger.. :-) - (Ashton) - Dec. 25, 2002, 07:35:12 PM EST

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