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Fri Sep-08-06 06:22 PM
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I don't know about you guys, but I'm sick and tired of hearing |
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the term "homeland". I don't live in "the homeland". I live in the United States of America. By the Pubs constantly calling it something else, most of our citizens have forgotten who we are and what this country is supposed to be about.
(can ya tell I was listening to Hardball and got ticked!)
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:24 PM
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1. I got ticked for another reason. |
woodsprite
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:25 PM
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3. My 6yo was flipping channels and landed on it for a few seconds. |
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Just totally burnt my rear. Thank goodness Spongebob is back on. He provides much more meaningful content ;)
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:38 PM
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9. Meanwhile, Amurka is building another homeland, one of |
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several in Iraq.... or should I say, corporate America is building itself homelands all over the globe.
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:24 PM
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"Homeland" sounds an awful lot like |
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"fatherland", doesn't it.
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:24 PM
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2. "Homeland" sounds an awful lot like |
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"fatherland", doesn't it.
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:26 PM
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I've hated that damned word from the first time they used it. |
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It's horribly Orwellian and isolationist, a real fascist mindfuck of a construction.
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:26 PM
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4. Would you prefer the "Motherland" ? Because that's what's next. |
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:26 PM
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5. I thought I was the only one |
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who found that phrase creepy and irritating!
:grouphug:
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:29 PM
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6. Homeland Security = Police State |
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:29 PM
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7. I hate it too. When they first came up with |
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Edited on Fri Sep-08-06 06:31 PM by ocelot
the Department of Homeland Security (which I now call the Ministry of Fatherland Security), I immediately thought of some Third Reich-ish agency populated by blue-eyed Aryans wearing brown shirts and shiny black boots. It creeps me out. Der Abteilung des Heimatssicherheit or something like that. Arbeit macht frei. Sieg heil.
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Sat Sep-09-06 08:31 AM
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15. It struck me the same way. Seemed an odd choice. (n/t) |
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Tue Sep-12-06 12:36 PM
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24. Yep, me too.......... |
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but then I think they have co-opted most of their strategies and ideas from the Third Reich.
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:30 PM
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8. I wish we were "second-cousin land" instead. |
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Nobody gets their panties wadded iover a second cousin. Nobody has to buy extra guns and set more traps to protect one. If we were a nice, gentle, non-violent second-cousin land like The Netherlands or Belgium, it would be fine with me.
I don't like ruling or policing the world. And I don't like people who DO like it.
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:40 PM
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10. Used by Dems and Rethugs |
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It seems like everyone in Washington uses it.
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Mon Sep-11-06 12:48 PM
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17. Ahhh, the tried and true "they are all equal" gambit. |
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Sorry, but no. This is a Republican invention. Any use by Democrats (far less than Republicans) is DINO-ish wimpiness.
And no, references to the DHS don't count, because that's referring to an entity that, although horribly named, does exist.
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Fri Sep-08-06 07:05 PM
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11. It's because "Der Faderland" has a bit of negative connotation |
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and is probably copyrighted ...
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Fri Sep-08-06 07:15 PM
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12. It's a euphemism for fatherland. |
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Amerika ubber alles. Got mitt uns.
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Fri Sep-08-06 07:30 PM
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13. My 'homeland' is an acre of dirt in NH |
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My nation is the United States of America.
I'm an adult; I no longer need a daddy god or a mommy land.
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Fri Sep-08-06 07:34 PM
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14. The word "patriot" is getting on my nerves especially when it's used |
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in conjuction with the word "act". Talk about a mind virus. Wrap a turd in a flag and all of a sudden it's all American and worth fighting for. My intelligence is insulted by such things daily.
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Sat Sep-09-06 10:05 AM
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16. I hate it when"the democrats have no plan" |
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this started last year............everytime the Democrats say anything about Iraq.....the turn around is "they have no plan"
Even if the Democrats did.......the majority rules.thats GOP............and we know it would never be brought to the floor.........everything gets tabled and killed...........esp............the Democratic bills on many things have been thrown in the garbage.....
this is what the Media won't say...............the Democratic Party tried to get this on the table...........but the republicans never let it be heard.........
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Tue Sep-12-06 12:43 PM
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26. me too, they have had a plan but the stupid RW shoots their |
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proposals down everytime, the RW'ers don't like the Dems to show them off. Disgusting bunch(the RW'ers)
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Mon Sep-11-06 05:16 PM
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18. America used to be a melting pot |
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Where people left their homelands and came to this country seeking a better life. Ya know?
I hate the term "homeland." Only a Puke neoCON could come up with that.
Bake
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Mon Sep-11-06 06:30 PM
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Homeland War on terror cut and run WMD islamic facsism we are fighting them over there so we dont have to fight them here freedom isnt free they hate our freedom
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Tue Sep-12-06 12:45 PM
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27. they just love the rhetoric don't they and propaganda |
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they just keep on repeating and repeating their message to catapult the propaganda.:puke:
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Mon Sep-11-06 06:36 PM
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20. Wasn't there a movie called "Homeland" or something like that? |
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It was in the 80's and starred Rock Hudson and Cindy Pickett. The United States had been invaded and conquered by communists. This was probably around the time of "Red Dawn" or perhaps a bit earlier. It creeped me out.
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Mon Sep-11-06 06:52 PM
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Vaterland. And for a good reason.
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Mon Sep-11-06 06:58 PM
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22. Very strange word choice |
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Remember the "homelands" under apartheid where black people were banished?
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Tue Sep-12-06 10:06 AM
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23. Well at least they were trying.... |
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I think that in their warped little minds the Bushies thought it sounded more warm and fuzzy and would therefore be better accepted than, oh, "The Gestapo" for example. And I suppose they were right.
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Tue Sep-12-06 12:38 PM
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25. me too, wasn't this saying "homeland" adapted from nazi germany |
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well that explains that, bushie probably heard it from his father, or his grandfather who was a nazi loyalist.
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