quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: He was talking about you? I'd thought that was addressed at Highay Hoss: He's waaaay closer to ther definition than you, Jay.
...though you may be paranoid that everyone's talking about you.
Because we are. Secretly.
Folks I am not schizo, ok? As for the paranoid part, well kinda hard not to be when you are dealing with nutjobs who pass such a misnamed piece of legistlation as the PATRIOT ACT ok?
As for Bush....I do not hate the man...in a way I feel sorry for him. He is being used by neoimperialist fundagelicals (short for fundamentalist evangelicals...nice word BTW) to advance what IMHO is a thoroughly unamerican agenda.
THe Bush administration, to me, combines the worst aspects of both the Harding and Nixon administrations. Bush displays not only Warren Harding's limited intelligence, laziness and lack of perspective but Nixon's excessive secrecy and distaste for dissent as well (when he became president, he tried to transfer all of his Texas Gubernatorial papers to his father's presidential library where they could not be seen).
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quote:Originally posted by Dr. Jonas Bashir: May 1? And instituted in the 1930's? How appropriate. Let me check when May 1 became 'Labor Day' in many countries except USA, and I'll be back to you.
BTW, yes, last Saturday, May 1st was Labor Day here in Argentina. And a holiday, not less.
EDIT: I was right. It was proclaimed around the 1890's, with the years adopted in most countries except the US and Canada, and became a national holiday, too. Hmm.
According to my wife (who has a political science degree), at that point in time the labor movement was closely associated with Socialism. The US created Loyalty Day to be the complete opposite of this, or something like that. I can't paraphrase my wife's political-babble very well.
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Well, I think that was the point he was trying to make; that 'loyalty day' was instituted in the US to counter those evil reds.
Even the most die hard Republicns among you though must admit it's a really crap name; sounds like it's from some crude parody of a facist state. And Bush's address was really dire.
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quote:Originally posted by Dr. Jonas Bashir: May 1? And instituted in the 1930's? How appropriate. Let me check when May 1 became 'Labor Day' in many countries except USA, and I'll be back to you.
BTW, yes, last Saturday, May 1st was Labor Day here in Argentina. And a holiday, not less.
It's called "May Day" over here. Original! And the holiday occurs on the closest Monday to it. So we all got yesterday off of work. Apart from me, who was up until 6 in the morning writing my disseration. Woo!
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: It's called "May Day" over here. Original! And the holiday occurs on the closest Monday to it. So we all got yesterday off of work. Apart from me, who was up until 6 in the morning writing my disseration. Woo!
Original or not, it was the original name used by The International, IIRC. Here, it's one of the few holidays that doesn't get moved to a Monday.
quote:Originally posted by Wraith: Well, I think that was the point he was trying to make; that 'loyalty day' was instituted in the US to counter those evil reds.
Sarcasm goes a long way, doesn't it? You got me right, Wraith.
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Folks I am not schizo, ok? As for the paranoid part, well kinda hard not to be when you are dealing with nutjobs who pass such a misnamed piece of legistlation as the PATRIOT ACT ok?![[Wink]](wink.gif)
You got me right, Wraith.
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