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I sense a deep seated, very unfunny, barely controlled anger in burnitdown that seems likely to me to explode one day, and probably sooner rather than later. I find the whole tenor of this and other comments he has made very disturbing, and about as funny as poisoned Kool-Aid. Maybe you're in denia...

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European governments are preparing legislation to require companies to keep detailed data about people’s Internet and phone use that goes beyond what the countries will be required to do under a European Union directive. In Germany, a proposal from the Ministry of Justice would essentially prohibit ...

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With the largest density of CCTV cameras in the world, and an increasing network of automatic number-plate recognition cameras on main roads, Britain has long been a pioneer for the surveillance society. Now new official figures reveal that UK agencies monitored 439,000 telephones and email addresse...

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Agnes Selby wrote:...and you, boyo, are making sure of that.

So you say, but we know you're biased, and religions have killed more people than I have

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Ralph wrote:What will they call it? "The Museum of the Great American Treason?"

The Museum of White Guilt and Appeasement of a Permanent Black Underclass (formerly Slaves)

Pluralism just doesn't work.

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High speed chase:

http://cbs2.com/video/?id=34137@kcbs.dayport.com

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diegobueno wrote:Now I think Beethoven was a very talented man, and his music is certainly very interesting in an intellectual kind of way, but can you really love this music?

Of course you can, and probably not for "intellectual" reasons. It's awesome art. Pure power, beauty, love and fear. Excellent!

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Human problems never go away, at least in the modern age...

http://www.ak47-guide.com/

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It mentioned that Border Patrol agents fight terrorism and help to keep illegal aliens and illegal drugs from crossing our borders. Keeping anyone out of the country is un-American and downright COMMUNIST. We should kill those border patrol BIGOTS. Reject violence. Some things, like HOLOCAUST DENIA...

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Now even fewer entities control what you watch and hear. Is this progress?

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Questioning the Holocaust is not legitimate. It's not a matter of science. Exposing the immorality of those who question or deny it is both legitimate and necessary. Questioning the WMDs in Iraq is not legitimate. It's not a matter of science. Exposing the immorality of those who question or deny i...

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[quote="Corlyss_D"What exactly have the Nihilists done for civilization lately?[/quote]

I believe they're trying to save it from itself, as it's on a path to doom.

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I bet she lip-synched it. This sort of stuff would barely make the news in the rock-n-roll crowd...

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Bruckner is greeted by (from left to right): Liszt, Wagner, Schubert, Schumann, Weber, Mozart, Beethoven, Gluck, Haydn, Handel, Bach. (Silhouette drawing by Otto Böhler) Liszt as an uncultured non-German must have been considered racially naturalized by his son-in-law. They seemed to accept related...

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david johnson wrote:now be nice, comrades. i like some minimalist music.

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Me too, but I acknowledge that most of it is garbage, just like there's one Led Zeppelin for every 400,000 incompetent garbage rock bands.

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Where did the WMD go?

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Will this strengthen special interest groups, however?

(Please, spare me the preemptive criticism of the Walt-Mearschinner report!)

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Ralph wrote:Your comment makes no sense - high speed pursuits are discouraged everywhere so the opposite would be relevant if that were the case with the Border Patrol.

No, it doesn't -- high speed pursuits still occur, in varying degrees. It may be discouraged more in one area than others.

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"Patriotic music" is political... I think it's always nationalistic, but not always political. Although I do realize many people use the term 'political' anymore to mean nationalistic. Do you mean patriotic instead of nationalistic? http://www.pan-nationalism.org/ Nationalism is something else...

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I think only in the West do we see Islam as united...

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Daisy wrote:I would have thought that the environmental movement would have transcended politics.

Nothing transcends politics these days, but I had similar hopes.

Problem with environmentalism is that you have to encounter difficult truths...

Like in philosophy.

At least as practiced by Realists!

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They know we want their oil. They don't like our culture. They're going to resist. I'm kind of in favor of these guys, all told. Repatriate the Palestinians to Iran and let the great religious-ethnic war begin! We are overpopulated as a species, you know. Any death today is fewer that have to happen...

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pizza wrote:Only a person of pathological insensitivity would call Elie Wiesel a "scumbag". Have you no sense of shame?

Sensitivity is a false emotion.

Realism is important.

Are you delusional?

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Which is why there are many old-school conservatives greatly disappointed with ex-Marxist Neo-cons and big government policies from those parties meant to be in favour of small government. Agreed: the modern right has betrayed its roots, "sold out" if you will. I started out ultra-leftist, and coul...

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Saphire wrote:The conclusion is that, in principle, it is possible to derive a set of "best" composers using objective criteria, despite all the counter-claims one is so used to seeing on Boards like this.

I agree, but saying that offends morons.

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If Wagner's in the other place, that's where I wish to be. I'm sure other interesting folks like W.S. Burroughs and Josef Conrad will be there as well.

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If minimalist music has a paramount flaw, it's that it is not impossible to play. People keep composing and playing it. To me it's criminally ugly noise that gets its support mostly from the deconstructionists and arts patrons who think novelty=genius and modernity needs to be protected from people...

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jbuck919 wrote:I'm listening to Bruckner's fourth for the umteenth time over XM radio and it is doing what Bruckner has always done to me; it is boring me into a stupor.

Bruckner is very sensitive to conductor... someone who doesn't "get it" will turn him into a mash.

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It's interesting how fast copyright holders find these online ads and posts. It's a trivial matter to scan search engines. If there's something you want to watch, I can show you a small script that will email you with all the notations noticed by Google and a few other fast-update sources in the co...

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Corlyss_D wrote:Don't make me listen to lectures about the variety of flavors manufacturers make them in under the guise of "sensitivity training" about gays and AIDS.

That message is a hate crime. Please report to a reconstruction center for re-education.

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"Patriotic music" is political...

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"Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate—healthy virile hate—for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.” (Legends of Our Time, “Appointment With Hate,” NY, Avon, 1968, pp. 177-178.) Wiesel's a scumbag, too. *****There should be a "Sick Post of th...

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Questioning the Holocaust is not legitimate. It's not a matter of science. Exposing the immorality of those who question or deny it is both legitimate and necessary. Questioning the WMDs in Iraq is not legitimate. It's not a matter of science. Exposing the immorality of those who question or deny i...

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Brendan wrote:PC remains firmly an ideaology of the Left in most minds.

As Huntington points out, the right has become fairly left, thus causing a rise in "new right" and "third way" movements.

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Ralph wrote:One can disagree with this now almost universal regulation but it's hardly limited to the Border Patrol.

But is it enforced more selectively there?

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Iran doesn't need to threaten Europe; Europe has already surrendered. That's what the 3 blind mice (France, Germany, and England) have been doing for the last 3 years especially. Not negotiating with Iran; telling Iran they don't care. They're just enjoying their freedom. If they don't want to wage...

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MySpace is the most incompetent website programming ever.

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Intergamer wrote:In every genre I prefer Schumann to Brahms.

Racist.

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Gary wrote:Valentine's Day...yuck.

Yeah, I've never gotten into the Hallmark Holidays. Why not just celebrate "Have a Coke and Smile Day" instead?

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hautbois wrote:Ennio Morricone is another composer not to be missed!!!!!!

He's quite creative. Not sure I could get into Hans Zimmer -- too many lifts of more qualified artists.

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It mentioned that Border Patrol agents fight terrorism and help to keep illegal aliens and illegal drugs from crossing our borders. Keeping anyone out of the country is un-American and downright COMMUNIST. We should kill those border patrol BIGOTS. Relevant: At the peak of the recent housing boom, ...

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Guess Hussein held the country together better than we thought!

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piston wrote:My spouse's maternal side are descendants of Eunice Williams. The Demos story is a fascinating account of how there did not exist a single ethnic heritage in the Northeast.

I reject your bigotry.

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Didn't Reagan have the same thing? Some skin cancer on his nose that he "squoze"?

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How true, Ralph...This is why I have so much trouble with the policy of being unflinching in the face of the loss of young Americans, just so we can teach a lesson or two in callousness to our enemies. Some people disagree: 1. Evangelical Christians who desire the end times. 2. Jews defending Israe...

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"Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate—healthy virile hate—for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.” (Legends of Our Time, “Appointment With Hate,” NY, Avon, 1968, pp. 177-178.)

Wiesel's a scumbag, too.

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Ralph wrote:But their chocolate with pistachios is to die for!

Aren't pistachios a hanging offense in Iran?

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IQ has nothing to do with it - minorities just need more government assistance and they will be on a level playing field with the whites! At least that is what's being implied by the so called minority leaders. Like most white power leaders, most minority ethnicity nationalist groups are currently ...

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The fellow in question is a Holocaust Denier. It is not only Jews who find Holocaust Denial objectionable. Anyone who belives in truth and is against lies finds them objectionable. Capiche? I don't trust any binary view of truth that finds it necessary to censor legitimate questions in the name of ...

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But Rush Limbaugh is a big fat (insincere) idiot.

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