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Re: Some people call Buicks "boats"...
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Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:41:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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Does the propaganda live up to reality in the USA?
Scott A
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It could be worse - we could have idiot royalty. Now that would really be
lame.
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Yeah; we have our Queen, you have Tom Cruise (etc). ;)
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Hmmmm, I’m not sure where you are going with that analogy.
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I was referring jokingly to the reverence Tom is shown.
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Tom Cruise
remains Tom Cruise whatever I do, the Queen is your Queen because you subject
yourself to her.
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The UK is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch. She’d be set
aside if she tried to use what little powers she still holds. Interestingly, she
could have stopped Tony invading Iraq as it was against the will of the nation….
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To be less silly, what country lives up to its propaganda?
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You are stealing my point!
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Aha! You admit that the UK does not live up to its propaganda! You should
be ashamed and concede all points of debate immediately. :-)
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The difference is, we are not indoctrinated at school with our version of your
“land of the free” stuff; we don’t wave our flags quite as much as you do. I
know what the UK is to me. I ignore the propaganda.
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Is the U.S. the land
of the free and the home of the brave, a land of opportunity? Yes, for the
most part.
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Even if one is black?
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Yes.
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I expected better from you. Read
this: “Our research
shows that blacks comprise 62.7 percent and whites 36.7 percent of all drug
offenders admitted to state prison, even though federal surveys and other data
detailed in this report show clearly that this racial disparity bears scant
relation to racial differences in drug offending. There are, for example, five
times more white drug users than black. Relative to population, black men are
admitted to state prison on drug charges at a rate that is 13.4 times greater
than that of white men. In large part because of the extraordinary racial
disparities in incarceration for drug offenses, blacks are incarcerated for all
offenses at 8.2 times the rate of whites. One in every 20 black men over the age
of 18 in the United States is in state or federal prison, compared to one in 180
white men. ”
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Hardly perfect (look how Bush got elected). Has it’s faults. But it
makes my short list of countries I’d be willing to live in. Consider that
my Irish ancestors voted with their feet on what they thought of Great
Britain. :-)
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They must have been the Schlickbernd’s of Dublin? ;)
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Dougherty, Joyce, and Leonard, actually. More towards Cork. Except the
idiot Leonard side - who bailed from Ireland for Scotland first, and found
that even worse. :-)
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He must have been an idiot if he preferred Ireland; our whisky is far better.
Scott A
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Did they take part in the oppression of native Americans when they arrived?
Scott A
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Arrived too late for that - I’m sure they would have joined in, like all the
rest of the Europeans did if they had the chance, though. :-0
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) He is? He is a popular actor, but I wouldn't call it reverance. Hmmmm. (...) Mostly, I'm just teasing about the Queen. :-) (...) There is more flag-waving in this country than in Britain (see the John Neal prototype), or such is my impression. (...) (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Hmmmm, I'm not sure where you are going with that analogy. Tom Cruise remains Tom Cruise whatever I do, the Queen is your Queen because you subject yourself to her. (...) Aha! You admit that the UK does not live up to its propaganda! You (...) (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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