[geeks] Special skills draft?

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-------------- Original message from patrick at mail.zill.net (Patrick Giagnocavo): -------------- 

> 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 
> 
> 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 
> 
> 2. passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act over the opposition of Democrats 
> (Al Gore's father, a senator, voted against it, for instance) 
> 
> 3. does not have a First Lady that called one of her political 
> advisors a "F***ing Jew B*stard" (that was Hillary Clinton) 
> 
> 4. generally opposes laws that would make private gun ownership 
> illegal, unlike Nazi Germany's strict gun registration (later used to 
> disarm the populace) 
> 
> 5. generally opposes Planned Parenthood, whose founder believed in 
> eugenics and felt abortion was necessary in America to have a "cleaner 
> race" (sound familiar?) 
> 
> To me, one of the saddest things about American politics is how the 
> Repubs often stand up for the right things (support of Israel, civil 
> rights issues, less govt interference in your life) and yet still get 
> demonized with the "sort of like Nazis" label. 
> 
> Meanwhile Democrats support Palestinian suicide bombers, tried to 
> defend a monstrous dictator like Saddam Hussein (who gave those 
> bombers' families checks of up to $25,000 for their "martyrdom"), hate 
> private ownership of guns, etc. yet they are always portrayed in the 
> media as being "more compassionate". 
> 
> --Patrick 

Tells you a lot about the media.

Actually I agree with most of what you listed but I think we could be getting
in dangerous territory here.  I'm beginning to smell potential flame war.

Bob