America is trying to stretch the face of her legal mind to fit the people she serves. Don't hold her back!
Why do we never get an answer?
When we're knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war — The Moody Blues, "Question"…
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76 - Dan(Miller)
Cindy, re comment #73 -- I am shocked, gravely depressed and terminally disillusioned by the notion that an Anarchist could favor White male slavery! Surely, you could not do such a thing!
Dan(Miller)
77 - Cindy
Darn, Dan(Miller)! Can't Anarchists have any fun?!
P.S.n%@+++=(((42)))
78 - Cindy
Jeannie, Clav is half Swedish or some such. What do you think, should he be considered a white male or not?
79 - Jeannie Danna
#71 is full of sh__. Pardon my frankness here, but in this year 2009 there are people in this country who do not look at Italian Americans as white, Newt being one of them.
80 - Jeannie Danna
Cindy, Clav is Clav...:)
81 - roger nowosielski
#79,
If that's really the case, Jeannie, then it's about time to rid us of all those old white men. They're senile, besides, because of old age and inbreeding. Yet imagine, on the Marcus Epstein thread, they're some who still argue on behalf of white supremacist, racialist theories.
This country had had it.
82 - Clavos
@#s 78, 80:
Besides the Swedish, the other half is Irish, and one of my passports states I'm a Mexican.
¡Hijole!
83 - roger nowosielski
Swedish is phlegmatic and Irish hot-tempered. Some combination.
84 - Cindy
Jeannie? Are you sure you read #71 correctly? The part about Newt was a quote.
85 - Cindy
Hold onto that passport Clav, just in case.
86 - Clavos
Swedish is phlegmatic and Irish hot-tempered. Some combination.
So, by extension, I must also be thick-headed (Swede) and a drunk (Irish)?
You're Polish. Are you stupid and backward?
87 - roger nowosielski
Clavos, the reference was to temperament, not to IQ. The extension wasn't implied. Yes, I was stupid and backward until I joined the BC community. And now I'm born again.
88 - Jordan Richardson
I haven't noticed that Swedes cough more than non-Swedes, but I guess it's a possibility if they're always getting stuffed up.
89 - roger nowosielski
They take plenty of lozenges. A prophylactic.
90 - Clavos
Hold onto that passport Clav, just in case.
Cindy, I understand what you're saying. Unfortunately for Mexico, it and the US are so inextricably intertwined that if the US collapses, Mexico (and in fact, most of this hemisphere) will be dragged right down with it.
I'm reminded of Mexican President Porfirio Diaz's famous line:
"Poor Mexico! So far from God and so close to the United States!"
91 - Clavos
Clavos, the reference was to temperament, not to IQ.
Roger,
The reference was to unfounded (and bigoted) generalizations.
92 - Clavos
Jordan,
LOL!
93 - roger nowosielski
Right, but it wasn't meant in seriousness.
94 - roger nowosielski
And what's bigoted, anyway, to refer to temperamental traits. They're not disparaging. Besides, we all have 'em.
95 - Clavos
Roger,
Consider your question in a slightly edited form:
"And what's bigoted, anyway, to refer to...traits?"
From The American Heritage dictionary:
"trait
NOUN: 1. A distinguishing feature, as of a person's character. See synonyms at quality. 2. A genetically determined characteristic or condition: a recessive trait. 3a. A stroke with or as if with a pencil. b. A slight degree or amount, as of a quality; a touch or trace: a sermon with a trait of humor."
Now do you see it?
96 - roger nowosielski
Clavos, Once again, the reference wasn't to character, only temperament. Anyway, I didn't mean it disparagingly. And even as individuals, we all have them - a way of summarizing" a person. I have nothing against Swedes and I love Irish. Besides, it was mostly in jest. If I overstepped, I'm sorry. I didn't know you were going to take it personally.
97 - zingzing
clavos: "So, by extension, I must also be thick-headed (Swede)..."
well.
98 - zingzing
archie: "I agree with you Zing, Sotomayer will probably be seated on the Supreme Court but that still doesn't change the fact that King Barry and the Dems are hypocrites."
i seem to remember you shouting "racist pig" in comment #2 on some other sotomayor-related article... so, don't talk of hypocrisy. the level of irony just lowered the temperature in the room a few degrees.
99 - Clavos
OK, Rog.
Was just makin' a point.
100 - roger nowosielski
I did't mean any offense. I hope you know that. It's over.
Now help me & Cindy with real issues - Epstein's thread.
101 - Jeannie Danna
Why are there 100 comments over here if this is such a non-issue and who the hell is King Barry??? and I did not insult Clavos!!! Now I'm publishing in culture where they are civil to one another, GOT THAT?
102 - zingzing
"who the hell is King Barry"
it's conservative-speak for obama. because they can't come up with anything more original. come on, we called him king george for years. it's played out.
103 - Jeannie Danna
OH
104 - roger nowosielski
BTW, Jeannie, I have some personal info. to email. OK?
105 - Jeannie Danna
?
106 - Jeannie Danna
k
107 - roger nowosielski
Thanks. Tomorrow.
108 - Christopher Rose
Roger and Jeannie, I believe this wouldn't be the first time that I have advised you not to respond to blatantly provocative remarks, particularly when they are coming from someone who is banned and will be re-banned as soon as some geek gets round to writing the requisite code. The only effect is that I have to delete even more comments...
109 - Jeannie Danna
Sorry Chris I just wanted to stick up for myself
110 - roger nowosielski
Just ignore it next time, Jeannie. It's for the best. Soon, they won't be able to post at all.
111 - roger nowosielski
Anyways, I'm done for today. Manana.
112 - Jeannie Danna
I just looked at my blog and I think I killed it
113 - Jeannie Danna
Night night Rog
114 - roger nowosielski
Still there. Bye.
115 - Cindy
I missed all the fun. Phlegmatic, coughing swedes and their use of prophylactics. Roger being reborn. Funny stuff in here.
Clav,
That passport will come in handy as well, if the white male slave idea catches on. Just tell them to look at your passport. I won't let on that your half Swedish and half Irish. Just looking out for you Clav.
116 - zingzing
it's amazing how some people are able to decrease the quality of a site just by showing up. it's like the ugly girl in a game of spin the bottle.
117 - zingzing
jeannie. ha. yeah. "the ugly girl in a game of spin the bottle?" that was for justoneman. i was saying his presence on the website, which i'm sure he reads (since he was commenting before the editors swooped in), is an eyesore. not you.
it's my fault for commenting on the one better left ignored and forgotten, aka jom. i just wanted to play.
see? no need to get worked up.
118 - Jeannie Danna
Please disregard my comment to you Zing but I do wish you would write a political article so I could read your views too.
119 - Jeannie Danna
:)