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During Dubya's latest inarticulate and noncommital description of his plans for destroying the country, viewers were treated to what I'm sure was in no way a planned event: an (URL) embrace> by two women touched by deaths in Iraq. The Iraqi woman, (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | It's like de-ja-vu all over again
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I thought this was a good read: On September 4 1967 the New York Times published an upbeat story on presidential elections held by the South Vietnamese puppet regime at the height of the Vietnam war. Under the heading "US encouraged by Vietnam vote: (...) (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: four empty cages
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(...) I hope that they remain empty. It is simply too inhuman to put people there. Which reminds me: Has anybody made a LEGO model of the Guantanamo concent camps? Fredrik (20 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: four empty cages
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(...) Obviously, the cages should be filled by those who oppose Freedom and Democracy, such as Barbara Boxer, Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd, and Ron Paul. Each of them has had the audacity to question Dubya's Divine Mandate and to remind His Righteous (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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After three years being held in Bush's Cuban torture facility on undisclosed charges based on undisclosed evidence, (URL) three Britons were freed yesterday>. Any suggestions for who should occupy those four empty cages in Guantanamo Bay? Scott A (20 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
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(...) Yeah, I guess I can see how a discussion of trivial outrage inspired by a perceived failure of journalism is completely distinct from serious outrage inspired by an actual, systemic failure of journalism. Sorry to blur these two obviously (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
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(...) No, I'm 100%, born, bred, living Asian Indian (to distinguish from Native American tribes) (...) Wouldn't that be discrimination? ;-) (...) Serious or not, irrelevent or not, the fact is that people will read it and their general impressions (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
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(...) Wow! Yours is the most reasonable post I can remember reading in .debate. Thank you for staying on topic and not feeding the troll. You hit the ball out of the park! (American baseball expression) -Erik (20 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
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(...) Actually, Hindi is the official language of India, but English is spoken just as much here. Legoswami Samarth (20 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
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(...) Samarth, I've got to commend you on your level-headed maturity, especially for your young age, not just here, but in all things you've been posting on. Send me your address privately-- I'll send you a few Han Solo's in carbonite--free of (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
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(...) English is an official language of India, has been for many, many years. That's 'native', as in 'native speaker' But, I aside from the minor nitpick, I agree 100%! Tim (Smith) (20 years ago, 26-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
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(...) Hey, you're not one of those non-native speakers of English, are you? Jeez, I wish you guys would wear distinctive hats, or something, so that we can tell you from those of us lucky enough to live under the Annointed Rule of the His Mighty (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Tolerance...Dave Schuler are you out there?
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(...) Hi Justin! Bruce has already given a good answer, but since your question stems from something that I wrote, I'll take a shot, too. Here's my original post, for those readers joining us late: (URL) there are several ways to look at it. For all (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
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(...) Well, youre gonna have to choose another topic, I can't lie and say I'm from the US, because I'm Indian. I'd rather not comment on matters I have partial/incomplete knowledge of in the first place; that'd be asking for trouble. So I'll be (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
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(...) Well, let's maintain some perspective, shall we? This is a campus newspaper, rather than a mainstream AP publication, right? And the article in question is an opinion column, as opposed to a work of research journalism. Honestly, I have a hard (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Civil War!
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(...) That's "War Between the States", ya Yankee! And I'll send Boris and Natasha after you if you even think about swivel-hipping your way outta this. :-) Gray: 'Merican. Or maybe rebel. Wait, that implies "civil war". Dang, this gets (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Tolerance...Dave Schuler are you out there?
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(...) If you preach tolerance, it pretty much mean you are against intolerance. If you want to play a semantics games and call that intolerance of intolerance, I'm sure that one could make an interesting debate of it, but generally, the argument is (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Tolerance...Dave Schuler are you out there?
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Hi Dave, Long ago I gave up responding to off-topic debate as I simply don't have the time to respond to all the tangents, etc. However, I still ocassionally get sucked into reading some of the threads. Somehow I've found myself dragged into a (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Hypocrite in Chief
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Read all about it (URL) What the heck is a "culture of life?" Considering that Dubya judges himself qualified to speak in favor of it, I can only conclude that it endorses the deliberate slaughter of some 100,000+ innocent civilians (not to mention (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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In lugnet.color, Richard Noeckel wrote: (...the stuff that Richard writes.) Richard, that post was HOT. With every word I read, I feel the passion growing in my loins. Please continue turning me on. Love, Iain (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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