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| (...) Now I don't normally like to post here in debate, but the local story about the 10 year old boy mauled to death by a tiger was giving me nightmares last night. As dreams would go, this debate item somehow entered the picture. It occured to me (...) (21 years ago, 17-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: File under 'D'...
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| (...) I was thinking that when my appendix explodes, I want him in the OR. I sometimes have this little list going on in my mind--"There's dumb (which I seem to fall into sometimes...), and then there's *really* dumb...." like a bad MAD comic. If (...) (21 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I understand that NASA is taking applications for rocket scientists again... he can probably save himself the cost of a stamp there. (21 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (URL) licence suspended for life for stealing cars and driving whilst intoxicated He wants his stuff back from the county pen... "Hey, come on over to pick it up" says officer So he does, by stealing a car and showing the revolked drivers licence. (...) (21 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: Right on the money
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| (...) May the farce be with you, Dave! JOHN (21 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) I found this interesting: (URL) What are odious debts?> "If a despotic power incurs a debt not for the needs or in the interest of the State, but to strengthen its despotic regime, to repress the population that fights against it, etc., this (...) (21 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) I was trying to preempt objections along the lines of "that's ridiculous, Hussein didn't really say that." But you're right--my phrasing was a little unclear, and I am in fact I'm all for farce. So farce so good, I say. Dave! (21 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| Oh, and another thing, only marginally related, I deplore the ambiguity about Taiwan that seems so favored in Foggy Bottom. If I was driving I'd come out and say "Taiwan is free, you're not. They want to be independent, that's fine with us, and you (...) (21 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Right on the money
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| (...) You say "farce" like it's a bad thing... It's farce all right, but farce based on the truth, and that's the best (or worst, depending on whose ox is being gored) kind. Realpolitik is just a bad idea. Always was. Better to be principled even if (...) (21 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) My favorite part: Saddam was also heartened by Mr. Bush's promise that, "The capture of Saddam Hussein does not mean the end of violence in Iraq." With new attacks by and on US and other foreign occupation forces, the former strongman stated, (...) (21 years ago, 16-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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