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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts |
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On 2010-12-31 18:49, MagicSanta wrote: In "Farnham's Freehold" by Robert Heinlein, the black man took over because various factions of the white man blew themselves up and left a power vacuum.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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magicfish Inner circle 7016 Posts |
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On 2010-12-13 10:11, tommy wrote: they already did. It was called the British Empire. |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts |
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On 2010-12-13 10:11, tommy wrote: I love good comedy. Though I expect he and those who would even consider the notion don't see the humor. Kindly look at the larger scale of human history for context/background knowledge and then look at his position in context.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts |
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On 2010-12-31 18:49, MagicSanta wrote: OMG - another comedian. How very 1960s retro. Very hep, my man. word for the day: marginalized
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts |
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On 2010-12-13 10:23, Woland wrote:... Aside from producing some very exciting reading, would do you see this philosophy as working or what specifically has it been used to accomplish and what is it working at?
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Hey! You gotta use the Charles Manson call backs when you can.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
"I've been shooting these machine guns all day, and boy are my arms tired."
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts |
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
-Cecil Rhodes
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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seadog93 Inner circle 3200 Posts |
Every time I see this threads title I think of Cecil Williams and I get very confused for a minute.
...on that note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR8GeXsey24 (if you look close you can see my dad and stepmom; he's a big guy in the middle with a black shirt and white tee under it 4 rows up. She's on the far right three rows up with pigtails.) Okay, sorry about that... please get back to your discussion about cultural imperialism and whoever this other Cecil is. OH WAIT! ... here's a better clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXKlnd97TuE&NR=1 This has Cecil Williams for a minute followed by my absolute favorite song by the Glide choir (dad and stepmom are in this one too)
"Love is the magician who pulls man out of his own hat" - Ben Hecht
"Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing'. Between the two, my life flows." -Nisargadatta Maharaj Seadog=C-Dawg=C.ou.rtn.ey Kol.b |
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
I thought that Russia, China, India, and Brazil would be the dominant countries of the next century.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
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Woland Special user 680 Posts |
Al,
Brazil is the next huge economy. And always will be. Jonathan, I think that the Anglo-American political philosophy, as it has grown from the Magna Carta through the United States Constitution and beyond, has worked to allow more people to make better lives for themselves than any other political philosophy. Because this philosophy recognizes and respects the individual and the rights of the individual, and understands that ordered liberty is not only the truest and most just political system, it is the most efficient political system. Other than that, not much to recommend it . . . Woland |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts |
System going well. Send more money.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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magicfish Inner circle 7016 Posts |
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On 2011-01-01 17:09, tommy wrote: Bring a tear to a glass eye. |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
I don't know what Al means by dominant power. I've been to Brazil and did a lot of business there and unless there was some serious changes there I don't see them achieving super star nation status. If you mean a huge economy in the sense of a market they are going to have to seriously revamp their philosophy on doing business and how they deal with their citizens as consumers. Brazil got so bad five or six years ago my old company decided to stop doing business with them. Argentina was going the same route and did some changes to try to improve things but still needs some work.
From a manufacturing standpoint China has good cheap labor but they have major issues to deal with concerning pollution, industrial waste, and a population that isn't going to stand by and put up with the system as it is. They do have the fact that greenies accept their pollution and waste as a non threat to the environment. India also has some fine cheap labor, in fact they have entire classes of people that can't even get jobs because they are so cheap. They also have issues to deal with. Then there is the simple fact that India is bordered by two countries that are more than willing to go to war with them, Pakistan and China. Taiwan has China breathing down their necks, South Korea has North Korea to worry about, the Japanese think they all suck. These are powder keg areas boys and girls and we put our egg basket right on top of them. Way to go. In case you are keeping score high tech is also in Thailand, which we know has internal issues, Malaysia which is okay relatively speaking, Indonesia which is a nightmare to deal with, and Singapore, a lovely tiny dictatorship which we ignore but has always been in cahoots with China. Russian never turned out as we thought. I use to get the business journal for Russia and it is a land that needs a strong hand that doesn't have a clue how to get going with the industrial stuff. |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2011-01-01 18:04, tommy wrote: I remember the last time you wrote that.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
The biggest oil find in years has been discovered off the coast of Brazil. In 25 or so years they will be one of the top oil producing countries in the world. The cars in Brazil run on fuel made from sugar cane. The Amazon rain forrest has vast natural resourses. The women there wear very small bathing suits.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
They are destroying the amazon in order to grow that sugar cane, oil industries don't support everyone with jobs, and the women there do wear tiny bikinis in Rio (Brazil is like Nevada, everyone assumes Brazil is all like Rio and it isn't, they assume everyone here lives in Vegas and it is warm all the time...it never hit thirty today where I am).
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
Obama will probably crash planes into the Sears Tower and blame Brazilian terrorists so we can go to war with them and take their oil.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Then to confuse everyone he will blow up and collapse a building not hit by a plane.
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Bill Hilly Elite user 449 Posts |
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On 2010-12-13 17:18, ringmaster wrote: Isn't that what the new 100,000 mile warrantees are doing? :kneeslap: |
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