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Reply to Exactly What is a patriot in Politics JoeUser Forums

what you would do for your country Move out. It's already over-crowded, and I have better opportunities elsewhere. What you would never do for your country. <

Reply to La France: Culture de Sensations, pas de Consommation in Blogging JoeUser Forums

J'habite en Corée du Sud depuis quatre ans et j'ai remarqué que la culture coréenne actuelle suit prochement à la culture americaine. Içi on bosse comme des fous afin de gagner de la thune, mais peut-être pour une raison différente: pendant les années soixantes, soixante-dix et quatre-vingts c'était un pays affreusement pauvre. En plus, les gens coréens sont toujours en train de se dépecher comme les coqs qui se manquent la tête. "Bbali, bbali

Reply to Someone elses thoughts about the Liberals of America in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

I'm puzzled by the tone of this thread. There are a lot of conservative (?) commentators here standing up for Christianity against the alleged 'bashing' it gets from 'liberals'(and maybe that's true: I don't really know the American situation). I'm assuming that many of those commenting would consider themselves christians. Yet there seems to be little evidence of tolerance, turning the other cheek, "blessing those that curse you", and all the other th

Reply to If you were a flower .. what would you be? in Misc JoeUser Forums

If you can add a pic that would be great! OK. Some flowers just for you. <img src="http://www.bigf

Reply to Taking stock of me. in Misc JoeUser Forums

... but try to remember the importent thing is I cannot spell properly Yes, you and Shakespeare both Interestingly, no one really cared much about English spelling until a couple of hundred years ago when a couple of dictionary nerds

Reply to Someone elses thoughts about the Liberals of America in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Liberals spend their entire existence -- all their energies, talents, time, and effort to defame, debase, ridicule, and denigrate religion. Do you really think so? What about genuinely religious liberals? I think there's a basic logical error here (a syllogistic fallacy, to be technical): A: 'So and

Reply to It's a Commie plot, I tells ya! in Politics JoeUser Forums

Yawn. We've been here before. Zinoviev letter anyone? Link Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Link A bit of googling shows that various rightwingers are posting this clumsy forgery on all kinds of forums right now. But then, as Goebbels said, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" ["Je g

Reply to off with his head in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Best royal Sun headline of all, covering the story that Buckingham Palace was going to be (partially) opened to the public: NOT IN HERE, I'M ON THE THRONE

Reply to What is it to be Irish? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

... This is a thoughtful and provocative piece, itgirl... Yes, and beautifully written. Calls for St George’s Day here in England to have a similar treatment – i.e. a nati

Reply to Pope joke in Humor JoeUser Forums

I've always loved this story since I first read it in Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. But no question, this one is a much funnier version I tip my hat to you.

Reply to Korean Reflections: Where Have All The Boys Gone? in Misc JoeUser Forums

As to Michael Moore, I remember the part in Bowling for Columbine when he is berating Charlton Heston in his own home. I think I agreed at the time with the 'points' that Moore was making, while still being sickened by the rudeness he was showing to a man who had chosen to invite him into his house. That, I suppose is pretty ambivalent...

Reply to Chirac et son réflexionisme in Humor JoeUser Forums

I accept the challenge and have attempted a translation: "'Hiringness' is the capacity for hiring. And my dream is to bring together inherent 'hiringness' with 'job-worthiness', that is, to bring face to face a boss who can offer a job, if he should have one, and a worker who can accept it, if he should be able to find it ... In sum to bring a state of on-going mutual suitability to the conditions of 'askfulness' and 'givification'.<BR

Reply to Chirac et son réflexionisme in Humor JoeUser Forums

En tant qu'anglophone, j'accepte vos excuses parce que la blague est amusante, mais presque impossible a traduire

Reply to Why Liberals make me angry in Politics JoeUser Forums

It's a point that I also made in another posting, but as a European, I'm always bemused (confused?) by the way that American conservatives refer to the 'left' in general as 'liberals'. Granted that your political spectrum is slanted far further to the Right than in the rest of the western world, and is also somewhat narrower, it still seems strange to me that 'liberals' should be the conservative bogeyman. In the rest of the democratic world the Right