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Re: Some people call Buicks "boats"...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 8 Feb 2004 19:47:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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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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He is? He is a popular actor, but I wouldn’t call it reverance. Hmmmm.
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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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Mostly, I’m just teasing about the Queen. :-)
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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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There is more flag-waving in this country than in Britain (see the John Neal
prototype), or such is my impression. But a sizable portion ignores the
propaganda same as you do. The simplified version (idealized?) is in the first
few years of grade school, but the full, not so simple nor pretty versions are
introduced as you go along. At least they were when I went to school.
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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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Drugs should be legalized and that would put an end to that. It would put the
drug lords out of business, and save us billions in drug enforcement costs. A
pittance could be spent on drug education and rehabilitation in comparison and
we’d actually have a smaller drug problem.
I worked for a company owned by an ex-general who is black (so there’s two
counts of success for him), and the chief operating officer for my division has
her PhD in Physics (and is black - all the examples are of blacks). The friend
who got me the interview was an executive vice-president for a company mine was
working for as a contractor - his relatives work for IBM, City Council in
Compton, an MBA in marketing, a labor relations lawyer, a police chief (shared
my Laker’s season seat tickets with him)...I can go on and on. Anyone who
wanted to make something of themselves did - the land of opportunity.
Everywhere and for everbody, perfection? I could swear I already put in my
qualifier on that, so I won’t be tedious and repeat it.
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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.
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No argument - Scotch is the way to go! But he didn’t drink. Anyway, I rate
beer more important than whiskey, and I gotta go with Harp.
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) I was referring jokingly to the reverence Tom is shown. (...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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