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Quantum

10:47 / 25.05.07

The battle is on in the Senate!

I would *love* to see someone illustrate that quote.

XK, that's excellent in a way, because you can easily find loads of odious peeps who share those unexamined prejudices. (survivalists, neonazis, the Klan?)

Ticker

12:20 / 25.05.07

True, but I'm pretty sure my dad qualifies as a survivalist. I know this because of my inherited edgy discomfort when not living in (or mentally designing) a concrete house/bunker set into a hill that's 100 % self sustainable and filled with chocolate, weapons, priest holes, and sexy people.

End Times or a really great party, either way you're set.

Quantum

12:54 / 25.05.07

Show him Louis Theroux?

Ticker

14:07 / 25.05.07

Quants, except for the racist noise patrol, thems be people I know. I live in New Hampshire the Live Free or Die state. Seriously, I'm not joking.

grant

14:20 / 25.05.07

Home of the Free State project!

grant

14:26 / 25.05.07

alas, that's one complicated letter.

Personally, I think Robert Rector is wrong - we actually had a nicely active thread on immigration in Switchboard a while back.

But what's weird is that it's a petition about a bill that (it says) isn't written yet.

If it isn't written yet, how do you know it's wrong? I mean, how do they really know what it's going to do?

Ticker

16:28 / 25.05.07

I hope you all will come be my new neighbors!

Quantum

09:37 / 26.05.07

See, most survivalists seem like nice folk to me, until they start talking about the Men In Black and New World Order. Or Hispanic Muslims...
Personally I can't get behind survivalism for the same reasons I don't retreat to an eco commune full of hippies. In preparing for the worst and opting out you sacrifice the chance to do something about it, and In My Mind it's a bit like building a bunker and coming to terms with the fact that everyone outside it is gonna die. I feel it's more important to try and prevent the catastrophe and fix the sinking ship than it is to get a lifeboat and fill it with guns. YMMV.

Ticker

12:30 / 27.05.07

yeah I was saying the same to the spouse last night.

Onwards..

Now my BIL is telling me I'm being too PC in calling my Dad a bigot for sending out funny emails sterotyping people of color.

*headdesk* WEE! I'M A HUMORLESS FEMINAZI!

Well let's see, if Dad sterotypes people and thinks it is ok how are those sterotypes informing his opionion of that group? How does the 'humorous' sterotype feel to someone of that group?

Quantum

15:38 / 27.05.07

Now my BIL is telling me I'm being too PC

Oh Jesus. Have you asked him to google PC and told him it's an invention of the right wing press?

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