 | | Re: What's Good for the Goose....
|
|
(...) I don't see how it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Inasmuch as the minority groups formed due to ostracism, and the "white" group is not forming for the same reason, I can see where McCelland's concern is coming from. It seems (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Globalization: The price of dignity
|
|
(...) more like a global free-for-all (...) Sadly, it's not an equation to begin with, it's favoritism for the monetary/political elite. I agree completely that fair (livable) wages are a must. After I had stopped my drefting job due to burnout 2 (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
|
| |
| | Globalization: The price of dignity
|
|
The price of dignity (URL) In the past two years, 500 export assembly factories have shut down in Mexico, throwing 218,000 workers on to the street. Their crime was the $1.26-an-hour base wage they were paid by companies such as Alcoa Fujikura to (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Democratic? (was: Sticking my gun ...)
|
|
(...) However the party system stuffs all that up by forcing members to vote "along party lines" instead of how their constituents want them to vote (except in conscience votes, which don't happen often in parliament). Note that I'm referring to (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
|
|
(...) What exactly are you looking for here? Anecdotal evidence that a gun and self-reliance are political necessaries? If you don't believe that then nothing I say will change your mind. I guess I could tell you a story, but then you'd just tell me (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
|
| |
| | Intellectual Property Question
|
|
For purposes of this discussion, let's posit that music companies *have* the right to control distribution and to make copies of their products, and also that the consumer is granted the "fair use" right to make personal copies of purchased music. (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: What's Good for the Goose....
|
|
(...) Agreed. (...) "A local NAACP leader said Lisa McClelland's proposed club smacks of racial division". Accusing someone of creating "racial division" is akin to calling them "racists" IMO. The entire quotation is, in the final analysis, the pot (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: What's Good for the Goose....
|
|
(...) You know, it's people like you wot cause unrest....;-) (...) Hmmm. Racism and sexism are different beasts. I am not in favor of equating the sexes-- they are not equal. Why O why do some women insist on trying to be like men? Men suck-- they (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: What's Good for the Goose....
|
|
(...) This illustrates why I think essentially social clubs shouldn't be sanctioned by high schools - the reason the minority clubs formed is because whites wouldn't let them into any of the already established clubs. Perhaps the whole idea is (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: What's Good for the Goose....
|
|
(...) Completely agree! As an aside, I put girls phys-ed in my course selection for a sememster when I was in high school. That got me called down to the principals office. He said I couldn't do it and I said that his decision was sexist and (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: What's Good for the Goose....
|
|
(...) Well, I say let the girl have her school group. But I can understand the NAACP's discomfort at the thought of a return to (or perpetuation of) institutionalized White Clubs. The reason it's a sensitive issue is that, in the US, the the (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
|
| |
| | Required Reading
|
|
Learn all about (URL) bias in the news media.> And, while we're at it, you might as well check out (URL) this,> too. Dave! (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
|
| |
| | top 10 conservative idiots is exceptoinally good this week...
|
|
(URL) Pentagon Remember all those so-called "support the troops" rallies that took place before the invasion of Iraq?...I often wonder where those people are now - I mean, you don't see a lot of them around. Waving flags, parading in the streets, (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | What's Good for the Goose....
|
|
(URL) And the local NAACP has the nerve to call the group "racist". When are such organizations going to come to the realization that their very existence perpetuates the type of behavior they abhor. JOHN (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
|
| |
| | Get back into the closet!
|
|
(URL) two men - Joe Varnell and Kevin Bourassa who are legally married under Ontario law - refused to fill out separate forms and cancelled their trip, to a human rights conference in Georgia. The US Embassy in Ottawa defended the action by US (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
|
|
(...) True, but it didn't start that way. And if the farmers in 1775 had quietly rolled over and turned in their guns, the army of 1776 would not have been able to be raised. Here's a pretty good short account of the day: (URL) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
|
|
(...) You know, I just don't think many people really think about the implications of 1775 (which is actually far more relevant to this debate than 1776, by 1776 the whole thing was well under way). How many people have thought about the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
|
|
(...) Wasn't it a massive insurrection against a tyranny? Didn't the newly started country raise a rather large army to ward off the Brits? Wasn't it, then, really, an army against an army? Whether you Yanks partook in gurrilla warfare in the woods (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Liberty vs. Socialism
|
|
(...) This depends heavily on where you go to. If you go above the Arctic Circle, the sun never sets during mid-summer. In Oslo, which is around the 60° Nothern latitude, the sun sets for around three hours in summer, but with the sun just beneath (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: Liberty vs. Socialism
|
|
(...) Hey Dave! I'm posting here because I know you will read this... are you comming tonight, and if so can you bring your laptop? Jeff VW Did I just go Off Topic in .off-topic? (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
