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On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:32:35 -0000, geoffm@lava.net (Geoff Miller)
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>Buck <Buck3479@att.com > writes:
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>[a boycott of GE for making nuclear power plants]
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>: Which struck me as odd, seeing as how there have not been any new
>: nuclear power plants built in the U.S. in what, 25 years? Then
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>> Do you think they only build things in the U.S.?
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>No. I think that a sane, well-adjusted person would only *care*
>if they built them in the U.S.
OK, that's what you think, but it's not true. You are not an
authority on sane or well-adjusted.
After all, these are the same
>sorts of people who are always whining about America forcing its
>will on other, weaker nations.
This has nothing to do with that. It's a boycott of a company, and
not a nation.
One would reasonably expect them
>to be consistent, and applaud the idea of other nations being
>free to make their own decisions and form their own policies
>vis-a-vis nuclear energy.
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>And once another country had crossed that line and decided that
>it wants a nuclear power plant, what difference does it make where
>the plant came from? Even if one objects to nuclear power on
>principle, I would think it would be seen as desirable that once a
>decision had been made by some nation to go that route, it was
>an American company that landed the contract. Wouldn't you? I
>mean, it wouldn't have been the contractor's fault that the nation
>in question had decided to go with nuclear power.
Get it? It's not about nations but about corporations that build
nuclear power plants.
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>: again, I understand there are people who still won't buy anything
>: made by Dow Chemical, due to their producing napalm during the
>: Vietnam War. Hell hath no fury like a liberal spurned...
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>> And you think conservatives are any different?
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>That would certainly seem to be the implication of what I wrote, yes.
Again you are wrong.
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>> Did you hear the Rep. candidate in the background at the first Rep.
>> candidates' debate complaining that Bill Clinton had decreased the
>> size of the army? It's been 6 years with the Reps controlling
>> everything until this January. They've made not even an attempt
>> to increase the size of the army but they are still blaming Bill
>> Clinton.
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>What's that got to do with GE, boycotts and nuclear power plants?
It has to do with your first line, where you complained that it had
been 25 years. Please, try to follow. There are other things that
conservatives have harped on for 25 years also, but none come to mind.
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>> And we're in a war now with multiple and extended tours.
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>What's that got to do with GE, boycotts and nuclear power plants?
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>Get a grip. Go take a Midol or something. You liberals are such
>*emotional* creatures.
You're bankrupt if you have to resort to ad hominems. Of course, you
started off that way, but these 3 are even more ridiculous.
> There's a lot of truth to the idea that
>liberalism is basaed on ferminine emotionalism, and conservatism
>is based on masculine rationality.
Rrationality? Their usual m.o. is trying to ridicule the opposition.
It's pitiful.
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>> Would you deal with a company you thought was immoral? Maybe you
>> would.
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>That begs the question of whether GE is, in fact, immoral.
No, it only relates to whether they they or you think something is
immoral. And you didn't answer the question. Was it too difficult
for you? Are you still trying to form a set of values?
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>>But my *real* "take away" was:
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>: "A 'long-running boycott.' Now *there's* a claim to fame!"
>: Dumb shits...
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>And well that it should've been, for I stand by it.
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I do not know who wrote the lines that start with >: . Not me.
You may have the last word. This is hopeless.
>Geoff
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