[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Andrew Weiss]

On Sep 24, 2004, at 9:40 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 11:45:07AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>> Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
>>
>> If you are refereing to Gov Schwaztenegger (sp?) then IMHO you should
>> look at the man, not his father. He is by no means a NAZI. He  
>> certainly
>> is not against Jews or Israel.
>>
>> If anything he is far more against the bad things the NAZIs were for
>> than most repubilcans.
>
> Just to be clear, the party you are referring to is the same
> Republican party that:
>
> 1.  ended slavery of blacks in the US, which southern Democrats
> vehemently supported

While the origins of the Republican party ended slavery, the modern  
parties are no longer related that way.  In fact, the case is the  
opposite.

http://www.hpronline.org/news/2002/11/11/Cover/Role-Reversal 
-314680.shtml

See role-reversal.

>
> 1a. and paid the political price as it was not until the 1990s (140
> years after the Civil War) that Republicans started to be elected in
> many of the Southern states
>
True to a point.

> 2.  passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act over the opposition of Democrats
> (Al Gore's father, a senator, voted against it, for instance)

False

"The Civil Rights Act was a highly controversial issue in the United  
States as soon as it was proposed by President John F. Kennedy in 1963.  
Although Kennedy was unable to secure passage of the bill in Congress,  
a stronger version was eventually passed with the urging of his  
successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed the bill into law on  
July 2, 1964, following one of the longest debates in Senate history.  
White groups opposed to integration with blacks responded to the act  
with a significant backlash that took the form of protests, increased  
support for pro-segregation candidates for public office, and some  
racial violence. The constitutionality of the act was immediately  
challenged and was upheld by the Supreme Court in the test case  Heart  
of Atlanta Motel v. U.S. (1964). The act gave federal law enforcement  
agencies the power to prevent racial discrimination in employment,  
voting, and the use of public facilities."

http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/micro/129/79.html
>
> 3.  does not have a First Lady that called one of her political
> advisors a "F***ing Jew B*stard" (that was Hillary Clinton)
>

Hearsay.

Non-verifiable and irrelevant...(What does one person's foibles have to  
do with an entire party?)

http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/07/17/trail_mix/

<snip>
> 5.  generally opposes Planned Parenthood, whose founder believed in
> eugenics and felt abortion was necessary in America to have a "cleaner
> race" (sound familiar?)
> <snip>

This and the following snipped material sound like something out of the  
bible of tin-foil hatdom.

Andrew
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