Good grief, Blatham, that was delicious! Hello to all...I have been busy caring for an ailing husband. I just peeked in and was chuckling over your comments on this old thread!
Pdiddie:
I am reading Greg Palast's book now: "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." I highly recommend it to all...especially Max...
About the WMD's and the lies from the administration (and yes, they were lies!), just remember all of you how long it took for Richard Nixon to take a tumble from his pedestal! He got re-elected after the Watergate break-in. I realize the media is in cahoots now more than ever with the corporate money bags, but I hope the right wing has pause and a few angina attacks worrying about the fallout in Iraq. I predict it will bring them down, and I ain't the only one.
Hi to all...miss you...I will be back!
VN...you been gone too long, and you're missed. Sincere best wishes for your family.
vn, You have our best thoughts. Be well. c.i.
Blatham - that was priceless.
Blatham wrote:However, there are significant differences between these two political giants - there is no record showing that Mussolini was EVER able to bring himself to describe Ariel Sharon as 'a man of peace',
Surely, he did not, and Hitler did not make any positive references about Mr. Sharon and people of the same ethnic origin either... They were not even acquainted: when Hitler and Mussolini expired, Mr. Sharon was in process of basic military training, and the only person that was eligible to assess his performance, was his drill sergeant.
Thank god Steissd clear THAT up.
Tartarin
Your response is too too funny.
Steissd
Thank you for the temporal readjustment. Now that you've put everything back in its proper place, I am, as an elegible dweller in the present along with yourself and Arial, making myself available to assess Sharon's performance. Phone or write, I am at your service.
I had to go back and read each of the posts following yours back up to steissd's to get that one dys. Very funny.
Because it was the other way around in the past?
Actually, we couldn't even run in the 'race.' c.i.
c.i.
Not for the last 50 years. When will enough be enough?
Why should the Hispanics get a leg up? What makes them so special that they should get what no other immigrant group gets or has gotten. I guess that is their bonus for entering the country illegally.
Though I live in a place with a large population of Mexican-Americans, resident Mexicans, and illegal Mexicans, I've never never never seen Mexicans (or other Central Americans) get special treatment -- often quite the opposite. In spite of the fact that most of them work the butts off. Want someone to do a job for you on Sunday? Want someone to finish a job in one day, though it's a ten or twelve hour job? It may be helpful that I'm Spanish-speaking, so I have non-job-related conversations in Spanish with many, and that (among other experiences) has made me aware of their tenacity and ambitions. More than once I've picked up a Mexican hitchhiker walking from the next county to this one -- often as much as twenty miles -- because they have been offered a ten-hour job at a ranch and have no other transportation except their own feet. They are very anxious to lift their families into the middle class dream. They work at it tirelessly (or so it seems), setting tough school and college goals for their kids and creating small businesses for themselves. Listen -- in my experience these immigrants are people who embrace the American dream and work really hard to get it. I actually feel enormous pride in them. Many of them are, to coin a phrase, what this country is all about.
Tartarin
I never stated or even hinted that the Hispanics or at least the Mexicans in this nation are not hard workers. From what I have seen they are. However, that is not IMO opinion justification for their entitlement to the special privileges of affirmative action. Can you provide any?
I'm not a big fan of affirmative action, Au, as you know. But as long as it exists due to a lousy public education doled out to the unlucky and the underfunded, why shouldn't anyone have access to it who needs it?
Tartarin wrote:I'm not a big fan of affirmative action, Au, as you know. But as long as it exists due to a lousy public education doled out to the unlucky and the underfunded, why shouldn't anyone have access to it who needs it?
If it were a program that helped ANYONE that needed it, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Oh yes we would, Scrat. You'd be right here arguing need!
Tartarin wrote:Oh yes we would, Scrat. You'd be right here arguing need!
Once again, Tart has more to write about what others think and mean than about what she thinks and means.
If you cared one whit for the record, you'd know exactly what I think on this subject. But of course, you don't care at all. You just want to high-five liberals and attack conservatives. The actual statements people make and what those people actually think doesn't seem to enter into it at all for you, which is precisely why I generally don't bother responding to you at all.
