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"Uncle Vic" |
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04 Jul 2006 10:06:10 PM |
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Happy 4th from the USA |
For all it's worth, it's Independence day. Somehow we're still
independent. I felt like flying the flag upside down, but I have a family
to protect. Hope you all stay safe.
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Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
The laws that require me to NOT kill people I don't like REALLY bug
me, or there would be many less of YOUR kind.
-John Weatherly
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Happy 4th from the USA |
05 Jul 2006 12:34:05 AM |
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In article <Xns97F6CC7EE9208vicman@216.196.97.136>,
Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com> wrote:
For all it's worth, it's Independence day. Somehow we're still
independent. I felt like flying the flag upside down, but I have a family
to protect. Hope you all stay safe.
I know what you mean. It's Independence Day, but I'm just not feeling
very patriotic. Yeah. Happy Fourth.
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John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Happy 4th from the USA |
12 Jul 2006 07:08:05 PM |
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On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:34:05 -0700, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote in alt.atheism
In article <Xns97F6CC7EE9208vicman@216.196.97.136>,
Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com> wrote:
For all it's worth, it's Independence day. Somehow we're still
independent. I felt like flying the flag upside down, but I have a family
to protect. Hope you all stay safe.
I know what you mean. It's Independence Day, but I'm just not feeling
very patriotic. Yeah. Happy Fourth.
It's Happy Surveliance Day. You're ordered to rejoyce about being
voyeured.
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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| User: "Fester" |
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| Title: Re: Happy 4th from the USA |
06 Jul 2006 04:53:59 AM |
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Uncle Vic wrote:
For all it's worth, it's Independence day.
Belated Happy 4th!
Somehow we're still
independent. I felt like flying the flag upside down, but I have a family
to protect. Hope you all stay safe.
Thank you for not performing such a disrespectful and shameful act.
Whatever your political leanings, such behavior would have been
needlessly obnoxious, hateful and ungrateful.
--
<^}})<
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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| Title: Re: Happy 4th from the USA |
06 Jul 2006 12:49:57 PM |
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Fester <not@home.com> wrote in
news:X45rg.6256$4c7.907@tornado.southeast.rr.com:
Uncle Vic wrote:
For all it's worth, it's Independence day.
Belated Happy 4th!
Somehow we're still
independent. I felt like flying the flag upside down, but I have a
family to protect. Hope you all stay safe.
Thank you for not performing such a disrespectful and shameful act.
Whatever your political leanings, such behavior would have been
needlessly obnoxious, hateful and ungrateful.
So was the bombing of my mailbox on the 3rd, which could have been a
gift from some Republican's unruly teenager who thought atheists have no
right to be citizens. But it was probably just a random act of
delinquency.
I'm slightly to the left of your average violence-hating liberal, BTW.
I'm glad to hear you think flying the flag upside down is a bad thing.
I'll have to consider it some day if I ever need to make a statement to
my rightard neighbors. But since my flag seems to be buried in the
attic somewhere, I'll have to settle for waking them up at 5am with my
bikes. :-)
--
Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
The laws that require me to NOT kill people I don't like REALLY bug
me, or there would be many less of YOUR kind.
-John Weatherly
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| User: "Fester" |
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| Title: Re: Happy 4th from the USA |
06 Jul 2006 06:30:16 PM |
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Uncle Vic wrote:
Fester <not@home.com> wrote in
news:X45rg.6256$4c7.907@tornado.southeast.rr.com:
Uncle Vic wrote:
For all it's worth, it's Independence day.
Belated Happy 4th!
Somehow we're still
independent. I felt like flying the flag upside down, but I have a
family to protect. Hope you all stay safe.
Thank you for not performing such a disrespectful and shameful act.
Whatever your political leanings, such behavior would have been
needlessly obnoxious, hateful and ungrateful.
So was the bombing of my mailbox on the 3rd, which could have been a
gift from some Republican's unruly teenager who thought atheists have no
right to be citizens. But it was probably just a random act of
delinquency.
Sorry to hear about the mailbox. Lacking any info beyond what you've
provided, your reasoning sounds a little paranoid to me, however.
I'm slightly to the left of your average violence-hating liberal, BTW.
I'm glad to hear you think flying the flag upside down is a bad thing.
I'll have to consider it some day if I ever need to make a statement to
my rightard neighbors.
It would be a statement that reflects very badly on you. I have
neighbors who are RR types and some that are flaming libs. I can't say
that I've had problems with any of them WRT politics or religion.
But since my flag seems to be buried in the
attic somewhere, I'll have to settle for waking them up at 5am with my
bikes. :-)
A much more acceptable form of payback 8^)
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<^}})<
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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| Title: Re: Happy 4th from the USA |
06 Jul 2006 08:47:10 PM |
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Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet Fester (not@home.com) made
the light shine upon us with this:
So was the bombing of my mailbox on the 3rd, which could have been a
gift from some Republican's unruly teenager who thought atheists have
no right to be citizens. But it was probably just a random act of
delinquency.
Sorry to hear about the mailbox. Lacking any info beyond what you've
provided, your reasoning sounds a little paranoid to me, however.
Well, I've been papered three times, egged, had a tire slashed, and an egg
carton full of human feces was left at my doorstep once. Then the mailbox.
All within the last four years - after I started displaying atheist slogans
on my vehicles. Yeah, I guess I'm a little paranoid. :-)
I let the mailbox incident go without a reaction. I replaced it with a $70
vandal-proof rural mailbox that might withstand a stick of dynamite. I
played a bunch of pranks when I was a kid too, I guess it's catching up
with me now.
--
Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
The laws that require me to NOT kill people I don't like REALLY bug
me, or there would be many less of YOUR kind.
-John Weatherly
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| User: "Tim McGaughy" |
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| Title: Re: Happy 4th from the USA |
06 Jul 2006 05:23:18 PM |
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Fester wrote:
Uncle Vic wrote:
For all it's worth, it's Independence day.
Belated Happy 4th!
Somehow we're still independent. I felt like flying the flag upside
down, but I have a family to protect. Hope you all stay safe.
Thank you for not performing such a disrespectful and shameful act.
Whatever your political leanings, such behavior would have been
needlessly obnoxious, hateful and ungrateful.
Flying the flag upside down means something specific that is not
disrespectful or shameful.
Educate yourself.
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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| Title: Re: Happy 4th from the USA |
06 Jul 2006 08:39:45 PM |
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Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet Tim McGaughy
(teekem@ispwest.com) made the light shine upon us with this:
Fester wrote:
Uncle Vic wrote:
For all it's worth, it's Independence day.
Belated Happy 4th!
Somehow we're still independent. I felt like flying the flag upside
down, but I have a family to protect. Hope you all stay safe.
Thank you for not performing such a disrespectful and shameful act.
Whatever your political leanings, such behavior would have been
needlessly obnoxious, hateful and ungrateful.
Flying the flag upside down means something specific that is not
disrespectful or shameful.
Educate yourself.
I just did. Thanks for that.
http://tinyurl.com/4p9me
--
Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
The laws that require me to NOT kill people I don't like REALLY bug
me, or there would be many less of YOUR kind.
-John Weatherly
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Happy 4th from the USA |
12 Jul 2006 07:11:39 PM |
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On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:39:45 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote in alt.atheism
Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet Tim McGaughy
(teekem@ispwest.com) made the light shine upon us with this:
Fester wrote:
Uncle Vic wrote:
For all it's worth, it's Independence day.
Belated Happy 4th!
Somehow we're still independent. I felt like flying the flag upside
down, but I have a family to protect. Hope you all stay safe.
Thank you for not performing such a disrespectful and shameful act.
Whatever your political leanings, such behavior would have been
needlessly obnoxious, hateful and ungrateful.
Flying the flag upside down means something specific that is not
disrespectful or shameful.
Educate yourself.
I just did. Thanks for that.
http://tinyurl.com/4p9me
It's been so many years I had forgotten about its use as a distress
signal.
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Happy 4th from the USA |
07 Jul 2006 04:58:17 AM |
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On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:39:45 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote:
Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet Tim McGaughy
(teekem@ispwest.com) made the light shine upon us with this:
Fester wrote:
Uncle Vic wrote:
For all it's worth, it's Independence day.
Belated Happy 4th!
Somehow we're still independent. I felt like flying the flag upside
down, but I have a family to protect. Hope you all stay safe.
Thank you for not performing such a disrespectful and shameful act.
Whatever your political leanings, such behavior would have been
needlessly obnoxious, hateful and ungrateful.
Flying the flag upside down means something specific that is not
disrespectful or shameful.
Educate yourself.
I just did. Thanks for that.
http://tinyurl.com/4p9me
When I read the portion about the flag code, I was reminded of
this...
Ooopsie:
http://soundingcircle.com/newslog2.php/__show_article/_a000195-000407.htm
--
zamboni #2139
BAAWA Assistant to the Vice-Administrator of Malevolence
EAC Tertiary Adjunct to the Dispenser of Obfuscation.
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| User: "Tim McGaughy" |
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| Title: Re: Happy 4th from the USA |
07 Jul 2006 11:36:02 PM |
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wrote:
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:39:45 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote:
Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet Tim McGaughy
(teekem@ispwest.com) made the light shine upon us with this:
Fester wrote:
Uncle Vic wrote:
For all it's worth, it's Independence day.
Belated Happy 4th!
Somehow we're still independent. I felt like flying the flag upside
down, but I have a family to protect. Hope you all stay safe.
Thank you for not performing such a disrespectful and shameful act.
Whatever your political leanings, such behavior would have been
needlessly obnoxious, hateful and ungrateful.
Flying the flag upside down means something specific that is not
disrespectful or shameful.
Educate yourself.
I just did. Thanks for that.
http://tinyurl.com/4p9me
When I read the portion about the flag code, I was reminded of
this...
Ooopsie:
http://soundingcircle.com/newslog2.php/__show_article/_a000195-000407.htm
Haha.
Well, if he doesn't respect our constitution, should we really be
surprised that he also doesn't respect our flag?
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| User: "Fester" |
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| Title: Re: Happy 4th from the USA |
06 Jul 2006 06:31:31 PM |
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Tim McGaughy wrote:
Fester wrote:
Uncle Vic wrote:
For all it's worth, it's Independence day.
Belated Happy 4th!
Somehow we're still independent. I felt like flying the flag upside
down, but I have a family to protect. Hope you all stay safe.
Thank you for not performing such a disrespectful and shameful act.
Whatever your political leanings, such behavior would have been
needlessly obnoxious, hateful and ungrateful.
Flying the flag upside down means something specific that is not
disrespectful or shameful.
Educate yourself.
It is extremely disrespectful as a form of protest, as was indicated.
Go find someone more ignorant than you are (if possible) to patronize.
--
<^}})<
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| User: "Tim McGaughy" |
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| Title: Re: Happy 4th from the USA |
06 Jul 2006 10:36:57 PM |
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Fester wrote:
Tim McGaughy wrote:
Fester wrote:
Uncle Vic wrote:
For all it's worth, it's Independence day.
Belated Happy 4th!
Somehow we're still independent. I felt like flying the flag upside
down, but I have a family to protect. Hope you all stay safe.
Thank you for not performing such a disrespectful and shameful act.
Whatever your political leanings, such behavior would have been
needlessly obnoxious, hateful and ungrateful.
Flying the flag upside down means something specific that is not
disrespectful or shameful.
Educate yourself.
It is extremely disrespectful as a form of protest, as was indicated. Go
find someone more ignorant than you are (if possible) to patronize.
I did.
It's still not disrespectful as a protest. BURNING the flag would be
disrespectful. Flying it upside down would just be a statement that the
country is in trouble.
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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07 Jul 2006 01:31:48 AM |
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Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet Tim McGaughy
(teekem@ispwest.com) made the light shine upon us with this:
It's still not disrespectful as a protest. BURNING the flag would be
disrespectful.
Or perhaps displaying it in tatters. Like all those idiots that attached
it to their cars just after 9-11....
--
Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
The laws that require me to NOT kill people I don't like REALLY bug
me, or there would be many less of YOUR kind.
-John Weatherly
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