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re: "equality of opportunity"
Most heirs of millionaires didn't work for the money.
Mary Anne
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6/19/2006 8:20:18 PM
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They just lived longer.
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Four Pillars of Socialist Revival
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Tom Brosz
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6/18/2006 6:07:34 AM
better target those Commie Christians as well
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Daniel
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6/20/2006 5:10:56 PM
What would Socrates do?
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/20/2006 4:20:33 AM
The Pillar of Conservatism
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Robert
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6/19/2006 9:05:28 PM
Why is it so hard to see the value of capitalism?
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/19/2006 9:25:44 PM
On the one hand invoking Socratic priciple.......
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Publius
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6/20/2006 2:05:49 PM
Curious...........no Tom or Tech response?
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Publius
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6/22/2006 1:00:41 PM
Hey, I didn't bring up Socrates
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Tom Brosz
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6/22/2006 7:54:48 PM
The mote in your eye
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Robert
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6/19/2006 9:42:44 PM
Sorry, I'm in MA defense mode.
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/19/2006 9:46:50 PM
Aw crap, damn HTML
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Robert
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6/19/2006 9:06:32 PM
The row at the bottom of your chart reminds me of renaissance artists' habit...
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alcaray
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6/19/2006 5:42:39 PM
tho I can't figure out why they left out gay marriage and too lenient fines for rude language on tv.
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alcaray
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6/19/2006 9:08:07 PM
I'm also amused by the change from "equality of opportunity" to "equality of outcome".
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Mary Anne
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6/19/2006 12:44:42 PM
re: "equality of opportunity"
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Tom Brosz
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6/19/2006 5:03:09 PM
Most heirs of millionaires didn't work for the money.
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Mary Anne
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6/19/2006 8:20:18 PM
Didn't even click the link, did you?
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Tom Brosz
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6/19/2006 11:00:44 PM
No, I didn't.
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Mary Anne
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6/20/2006 12:42:11 AM
Wow. That's quite a day.
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Tom Brosz
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6/20/2006 4:59:18 AM
Double teaming MA sure is fun isn't it? ;-)
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/19/2006 11:23:33 PM
Isn't it a pity that two of you *combined* don't measure up...
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Fox
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6/19/2006 11:27:49 PM
I think our points are well received.
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/20/2006 1:55:29 AM
By whom - each other?
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Fox
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6/20/2006 2:41:16 AM
Brer Fox you ken jus' kep yore thar Tar baby
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/20/2006 3:49:53 AM
that is an utterly lame response to a damn good point
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Daniel
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6/20/2006 5:34:03 AM
His point was a leftist Tar Baby.
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/20/2006 6:23:42 AM
First to cry racism automatically loses? In this thread, you.
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Tony
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6/20/2006 6:31:39 PM
Funny, I thought the 'controversial part being referenced' was:
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Daniel
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6/20/2006 4:59:48 PM
Germany and immigration
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/20/2006 9:47:10 PM
"The folks mentioned above basically are saying that illegal foreigners have more rights than our citizens do
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Tony
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6/21/2006 6:30:21 PM
hah!
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alcaray
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6/22/2006 10:35:32 PM
Sad thing is if I'm right, he wont be able to read it.....
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Tony
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6/23/2006 7:36:53 PM
goes to show -
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Daniel
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6/21/2006 5:09:04 AM
Ah sufferage and equal suffering.
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/19/2006 8:39:05 PM
Very Broszesqe: Al Gore in the same league as Marx, Lenin, Mao and Terrorists
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Buck Galaxy
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6/19/2006 7:48:08 AM
No, they were "successful" -and had some personal magnetism.
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/19/2006 9:34:41 PM
10 More Pillars of Socialist Revival
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daniel
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6/19/2006 2:57:16 AM
I stand by my response on that one, too.
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Tom Brosz
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6/19/2006 4:00:07 AM
just clarifying my position
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Daniel
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6/19/2006 5:28:44 PM
Multiculturalism Is Evil!
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Mary Anne
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6/18/2006 4:29:00 PM
Proper usage of discrimination.
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/19/2006 4:27:50 AM
Beethoven is very difficult. In contrast, rap is a bargain.
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alcaray
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6/19/2006 5:45:19 PM
Islam and not-Islam
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Mary Anne
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6/19/2006 4:41:08 AM
Well let's get to the point...
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/19/2006 5:03:32 AM
Not even a good try.
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Tom Brosz
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6/19/2006 2:21:05 AM
Baloney
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Mary Anne
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6/19/2006 4:20:50 AM
re: Baloney
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Tom Brosz
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6/19/2006 5:07:02 AM
Parsing
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Mary Anne
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6/19/2006 5:34:29 AM
re: Parsing
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Tom Brosz
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6/19/2006 7:19:14 AM
I give you... the Salem Witch Trials.
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Mary Anne
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6/19/2006 11:33:09 AM
You notice you usually have to go back fifty to 200 years for your examples?
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Tom Brosz
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6/19/2006 11:02:26 PM
I pick the big targets.
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Mary Anne
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6/20/2006 12:59:18 AM
Two can play that game.
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/19/2006 7:25:45 PM
No one was burned at the stake or hung from a tree for any of those.
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Mary Anne
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6/19/2006 8:18:43 PM
Just give multiculturalism a little time. (& a discussion of morals)
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/19/2006 11:13:56 PM
"Quick to kill and quick sexual readiness are the traits of the hunter/agrarian class."
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Mary Anne
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6/20/2006 12:56:15 AM
Would you like birthrate statistics to back that claim up?
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/20/2006 1:54:02 AM
Would you like to provide the infant mortality statistics that go along with those?
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Mary Anne
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6/20/2006 2:08:50 AM
Oh horrors! A country club!
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/20/2006 4:00:46 AM
Point of view
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Mary Anne
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6/20/2006 11:18:40 AM
To be fair, though...
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Tom Brosz
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6/19/2006 7:52:12 PM
but you are exaggerating the problem
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FrankC
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6/19/2006 8:13:25 AM
re: Multiculturalism Is Evil!
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ER
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6/18/2006 11:19:13 PM
clarification of "an argument we have had here":
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Mary Anne
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6/18/2006 10:55:44 PM
Chinese restaurants and pizza parlors
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FrankC
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6/18/2006 9:36:56 PM
Multiculturalism
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Robert
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6/19/2006 6:04:49 PM
imposing our own
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FrankC
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6/19/2006 7:10:51 PM
Assimilation
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Robert
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6/19/2006 8:51:24 PM
you may have misundersood me
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FrankC
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6/19/2006 10:07:15 PM
re: you may have misundersood me
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Robert
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6/19/2006 11:27:40 PM
Big differences
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/19/2006 9:58:05 PM
That ole-time bigotry
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Robert
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6/20/2006 12:16:09 AM
re: That ole-time common sense
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SDAI-Tech1
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6/20/2006 1:43:06 AM
That ole-time bigotry
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Robert
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6/21/2006 5:20:18 AM
You travel with people who define the word differently.
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Mary Anne
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6/18/2006 10:29:15 PM
re: Chinese restaurants and pizza parlors
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gbaikie
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6/18/2006 9:54:50 PM
re: Chinese restaurants and pizza parlors
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Mary Anne
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6/18/2006 11:24:04 PM
re: Chinese restaurants and pizza parlors
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gbaikie
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6/19/2006 12:26:27 AM
A plague on both your houses.
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ER
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6/18/2006 4:46:01 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.