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sirs

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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #90 on: March 28, 2011, 08:55:39 PM »
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THAT's undoubtedly PRECISELY the position that those behind the construction of the mosque have adopted. 

Thus the need for clarification.

Wow, I was not aware you were one of those behind the construction, which the above comments referenced.  My bad.  Unless of course you actually read what I wrote, and weren't, in which case no clarification was needed
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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #91 on: March 28, 2011, 09:03:38 PM »
Guilt resolves nothing. The issue regarding slavery is one of understanding, not guilt.

I am neither for nor against them building the Park 51 mosque, but calling it the 9/11 mosque is just stupid bigotry. The owners of Park 51 have the same right to build whatever they wish, just as you would if you were the owner.

I do not see where any sane person can say that a place two blocks down and one around the corner is "sacred". I do not see how victims who were simply doing their jobs and unlucky enough to get murdered by fanatical morons make any place "sacred".
 
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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #92 on: March 28, 2011, 09:10:23 PM »
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Wow, I was not aware you were one of those behind the construction, which the above comments referenced.  My bad.

Showing your comprehension skills again?

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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #93 on: March 28, 2011, 09:39:04 PM »
Guess my lack of guilt is a benefit from having ancestors who came over in the 1880's.
Irish to New York City and the Germans to PA Dutch Country.

So now you are saying the horrible treatment of blacks
in the United States was over by 1880? (BT I am just ribbing you)
But glad to hear you are Irish!
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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #94 on: March 29, 2011, 03:05:27 AM »
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Wow, I was not aware you were one of those behind the construction, which the above comments referenced.  My bad.

Showing your comprehension skills again?

"THAT's undoubtedly PRECISELY the position that those behind the construction of the mosque have adopted."  Nope, just highlighting your apparent lack of such, with an irrelevant unneeded  "clarification"
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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #95 on: March 29, 2011, 03:07:51 AM »
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Wow, I was not aware you were one of those behind the construction, which the above comments referenced.  My bad.

Showing your comprehension skills again?

"THAT's undoubtedly PRECISELY the position that those behind the construction of the mosque have adopted."  Nope, just highlighting your apparent lack of such, with an irrelevant unneeded  "clarification"

Good for you

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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #96 on: March 29, 2011, 04:03:16 AM »
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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #97 on: March 29, 2011, 11:46:24 AM »
Guess my lack of guilt is a benefit from having ancestors who came over in the 1880's. Irish to New York City and the Germans to PA Dutch Country.

My "ancestors" (my parents) came over in late 1960s, via Central America. Slavery per se never really existed in Austria, and even serfdom (hereditary workers) was abolished in 1848.
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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #98 on: March 30, 2011, 04:18:59 PM »
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle

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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #99 on: March 30, 2011, 05:49:31 PM »
So what are you for?

Paying ANY price?

Bearing ANY burden?

That was nonsense when JFK said it, he did not act accordingly, he could not act accordingly, and it is nonsense today.

Libya is not Vietnam.

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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #100 on: April 01, 2011, 05:55:41 PM »
So what are you for?

Paying ANY price?

Bearing ANY burden?

That was nonsense when JFK said it, he did not act accordingly, he could not act accordingly, and it is nonsense today.

Libya is not Vietnam.

Generally or specificly?

Opening up the grand catagory of American Interventionism this qualifies as just another one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Nacional_de_las_Intervenciones
http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/318-churubusco-museo-nacional-de-las-intervenciones

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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #101 on: April 01, 2011, 06:06:47 PM »
There is no caliphate. Not anywhere.
Nor all Muslims are radicals, not all Muslims commit acts of terrorism.
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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #102 on: April 01, 2011, 06:18:04 PM »
There is no caliphate. Not anywhere.
Nor all Muslims are radicals, not all Muslims commit acts of terrorism.

 Ok, there is also no united Europe under a thousand year Reich. Nor were there ever a majority of Germans members of the Nazi party. The perfidious idea was still harmfull.


   If one were able to gather and count all of the earths terrorists right now, what purportion of them would belong to what category's? How many of these would feel cross border kinship with other terrorists ?


      Before WWII there were some Christians who despised Nazis and said so, that the Pope didn't is a criticism I have heard. Had he any duty to denounce?

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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #103 on: April 01, 2011, 11:06:49 PM »
I would say that the Pope did have a duty to denounce the Nazis, but perhaps he felt that this would simply have resulted in the end of the papacy and the Church.

I am all for opposing terrorists as terrorists, but not opposing all Muslin=ms because some Muslims are radical, and some radical Muslims are terrorists.

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Re: "Who's on 1st?"
« Reply #104 on: April 01, 2011, 11:59:48 PM »
Nor all Muslims are radicals, not all Muslims commit acts of terrorism.

Good thing no one is claiming that.  Way to clear that non-issue up, Xo
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