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"millipede man" |
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10 Jul 2005 08:09:22 AM |
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America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
Going through the immigration checkpoint at the airport and having the
border patrol (?) agent say "Welcome home!" or "Welcome back!" after
swiping my passport, made me realize that this is my home after all.
Most of my ancestors were from China, but I've never been there, I've
never been a Chinese citizen, and I don't even speak the language.
Although China is one of my two ancestral homelands, it will never be my
"home." The remainder of my ancestors originated in Germany. Again, I've
never lived there, and I've never been a German citizen. Although I do
speak some German, and I frequently visit relatives there, it will never
be my "home" either. I don't look German, which is a big obstacle to
ever feeling at home there. On the other hand, I don't look completely
Chinese either.
Anywhere else in the world, I wouldn't even have any ancestry as a
connection, and it would be even harder to be accepted.
Here in America, at least there are job opportunities, regardless of
your race. Having the US border police welcome me home makes me realize
that this is in fact my home, for better or for worse.
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- millipede man
Tibet has been, is, and will remain part of the Chinese empire:
http://www.index-china.com/index-english/Tibet-s.html
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
12 Jul 2005 12:02:37 AM |
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America used to be a great nation until the Bush's got into office.
Now it's the same as Nazi Germany was.
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:09:22 GMT, millipede man
<huaMMMngm@eartMMMhlinMMMk.MMMnet> wrote:
Going through the immigration checkpoint at the airport and having the
border patrol (?) agent say "Welcome home!" or "Welcome back!" after
swiping my passport, made me realize that this is my home after all.
Most of my ancestors were from China, but I've never been there, I've
never been a Chinese citizen, and I don't even speak the language.
Although China is one of my two ancestral homelands, it will never be my
"home." The remainder of my ancestors originated in Germany. Again, I've
never lived there, and I've never been a German citizen. Although I do
speak some German, and I frequently visit relatives there, it will never
be my "home" either. I don't look German, which is a big obstacle to
ever feeling at home there. On the other hand, I don't look completely
Chinese either.
Anywhere else in the world, I wouldn't even have any ancestry as a
connection, and it would be even harder to be accepted.
Here in America, at least there are job opportunities, regardless of
your race. Having the US border police welcome me home makes me realize
that this is in fact my home, for better or for worse.
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
12 Jul 2005 01:41:36 AM |
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:02:37 -0500, wrote:
America used to be a great nation until the Bush's got into office.
Now it's the same as Nazi Germany was.
Time to clean the mayonnaise off of your tinfoil hat...
--
To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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| User: "Janithor" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
12 Jul 2005 01:48:21 AM |
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x-no-archive: yes
CyberDroog wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:02:37 -0500, wrote:
America used to be a great nation until the Bush's got into office.
Now it's the same as Nazi Germany was.
Time to clean the mayonnaise off of your tinfoil hat...
He's just trying to score with Berkeley chicks:
http://www.zombietime.com/hall_of_shame/118-1853_IMG.JPG
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
12 Jul 2005 02:49:27 AM |
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:48:21 GMT, Janithor <Janithor@comcast.net> wrote:
CyberDroog wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:02:37 -0500, wrote:
America used to be a great nation until the Bush's got into office.
Now it's the same as Nazi Germany was.
Time to clean the mayonnaise off of your tinfoil hat...
He's just trying to score with Berkeley chicks:
http://www.zombietime.com/hall_of_shame/118-1853_IMG.JPG
Geez, those Berkeley chicks are kinds homely...
--
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation,
experience and reflection.
- Ambrose Bierce
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| User: "--SorrtaLily b" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
12 Jul 2005 03:37:21 AM |
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that argument won't fly..
martythebugman loves nazi germany
oh and please don't demean the lives of millions lost by calling bush
'hitler'
yea, don't like his policys ..i don't, but at least know better.
he is not hilter or even close.
<me@my.com> wrote in message
news:flj6d1lp5teo7pknt0ts17qj2v3n3i9ju5@4ax.com...
| America used to be a great nation until the Bush's got into office.
| Now it's the same as Nazi Germany was.
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| On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:09:22 GMT, millipede man
| <huaMMMngm@eartMMMhlinMMMk.MMMnet> wrote:
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| >Going through the immigration checkpoint at the airport and having the
| >border patrol (?) agent say "Welcome home!" or "Welcome back!" after
| >swiping my passport, made me realize that this is my home after all.
| >
| >Most of my ancestors were from China, but I've never been there, I've
| >never been a Chinese citizen, and I don't even speak the language.
| >Although China is one of my two ancestral homelands, it will never be my
| >"home." The remainder of my ancestors originated in Germany. Again, I've
| >never lived there, and I've never been a German citizen. Although I do
| >speak some German, and I frequently visit relatives there, it will never
| >be my "home" either. I don't look German, which is a big obstacle to
| >ever feeling at home there. On the other hand, I don't look completely
| >Chinese either.
| >
| >Anywhere else in the world, I wouldn't even have any ancestry as a
| >connection, and it would be even harder to be accepted.
| >
| >Here in America, at least there are job opportunities, regardless of
| >your race. Having the US border police welcome me home makes me realize
| >that this is in fact my home, for better or for worse.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
12 Jul 2005 02:43:57 PM |
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--SorrtaLily b wrote:
that argument won't fly..
martythebugman loves nazi germany
oh and please don't demean the lives of millions lost by calling bush
'hitler'
yea, don't like his policys ..i don't, but at least know better.
he is not hilter or even close.
I agree with that. Bush is a pretty horrifying,terrible person,but
he's not nearly as terrible as Hitler...
-"Alvintchase"
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| User: "Ivan Marsh" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
13 Jul 2005 10:20:47 AM |
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:43:57 -0700, relayer211 wrote:
--SorrtaLily b wrote:
that argument won't fly..
martythebugman loves nazi germany
oh and please don't demean the lives of millions lost by calling bush
'hitler'
yea, don't like his policys ..i don't, but at least know better. he is
not hilter or even close.
I agree with that. Bush is a pretty horrifying,terrible person,but
he's not nearly as terrible as Hitler...
I disagree... at least Hitler was honest. He defined who his enemies were
and said what he was going to do about them, in public, on the record.
Bush is either too cowardly to admit what he's doing or too ignorant to
realize what he's doing.
We will never know how many have died in Afghanistan or Iraq.
The New World Order's body count is just beginning.
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Benjamin Franklin (I didn't know he was a Buddhist)
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
13 Jul 2005 01:12:21 PM |
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On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:20:47 -0500, Ivan Marsh <annoyed@you.now> wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:43:57 -0700, relayer211 wrote:
--SorrtaLily b wrote:
that argument won't fly..
martythebugman loves nazi germany
oh and please don't demean the lives of millions lost by calling bush
'hitler'
yea, don't like his policys ..i don't, but at least know better. he is
not hilter or even close.
I agree with that. Bush is a pretty horrifying,terrible person,but
he's not nearly as terrible as Hitler...
I disagree... at least Hitler was honest. He defined who his enemies were
and said what he was going to do about them, in public, on the record.
Bush is either too cowardly to admit what he's doing or too ignorant to
realize what he's doing.
We will never know how many have died in Afghanistan or Iraq.
The New World Order's body count is just beginning.
Buy stock in Alcoa.
--
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They
have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of
government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their
principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for
something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out
of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by
looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage,
and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.
- H.L. Mencken
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| User: "Nom dePlume nomdeplume1000-at-yahoo.com" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
10 Jul 2005 08:12:31 PM |
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It is good that you can feel this way. Do you think your recent
medication change has anything to do with your feelings? I'm guessing
that your ability to have certain kinds of feelings is improving.
--
Nom dePlume, Ph.D.
Why, yes, in fact, I am a rocket scientist.
Guide to Medications for Mental Illness:
http://www.geocities.com/nomdeplume1000/
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"millipede man" <huaMMMngm@eartMMMhlinMMMk.MMMnet> wrote in message
news:669Ae.1578$dU3.183@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
Going through the immigration checkpoint at the airport and having
the
border patrol (?) agent say "Welcome home!" or "Welcome back!" after
swiping my passport, made me realize that this is my home after all.
Most of my ancestors were from China, but I've never been there,
I've
never been a Chinese citizen, and I don't even speak the language.
Although China is one of my two ancestral homelands, it will never
be my
"home." The remainder of my ancestors originated in Germany. Again,
I've
never lived there, and I've never been a German citizen. Although I
do
speak some German, and I frequently visit relatives there, it will
never
be my "home" either. I don't look German, which is a big obstacle to
ever feeling at home there. On the other hand, I don't look
completely
Chinese either.
Anywhere else in the world, I wouldn't even have any ancestry as a
connection, and it would be even harder to be accepted.
Here in America, at least there are job opportunities, regardless of
your race. Having the US border police welcome me home makes me
realize
that this is in fact my home, for better or for worse.
--
- millipede man
Tibet has been, is, and will remain part of the Chinese empire:
http://www.index-china.com/index-english/Tibet-s.html
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| User: "Rhiannon" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
11 Jul 2005 12:07:39 PM |
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"Nom dePlume" <nomdeplume1000-at-yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:dash7g02658@news4.newsguy.com...
It is good that you can feel this way. Do you think your recent
medication change has anything to do with your feelings? I'm guessing
that your ability to have certain kinds of feelings is improving.
--
Nom dePlume, Ph.D.
Why, yes, in fact, I am a rocket scientist.
Guide to Medications for Mental Illness:
http://www.geocities.com/nomdeplume1000/
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I was going to say the same thing. Seems like some personal growth is going
on. It's encouraging to see M. :)
--
rhianon@sympatico.ca
"All those who believe in psychokinesis
raise my hand."
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| User: "N0body" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
10 Jul 2005 01:18:57 PM |
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Or, you can say that the US has absolutely the very WORST sort of government
.... until you compare it to everything else available out there.
(Paraphrasing Winston Churchill on democracy)
We Americans tend to evaluate ourselves by absolutes. By that sort of
standard, we are terrible, since no realistic governmental structure can
ever live up to absolutist expectations.
I do think it would be good for every American to be forced to spend two
years in another country ... so he could begin to see us by comparision with
reality, rather than with wishful absolutist criteria.
In my not-so-humble opiniion, with all of its faults, the United States of
America is still the best place to live in the world, and the greatest hope
of mankind. If that makes me a chauvinist, so be it.
"millipede man" <huaMMMngm@eartMMMhlinMMMk.MMMnet> wrote in message
news:669Ae.1578$dU3.183@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
Going through the immigration checkpoint at the airport and having the
border patrol (?) agent say "Welcome home!" or "Welcome back!" after
swiping my passport, made me realize that this is my home after all.
Most of my ancestors were from China, but I've never been there, I've
never been a Chinese citizen, and I don't even speak the language.
Although China is one of my two ancestral homelands, it will never be my
"home." The remainder of my ancestors originated in Germany. Again, I've
never lived there, and I've never been a German citizen. Although I do
speak some German, and I frequently visit relatives there, it will never
be my "home" either. I don't look German, which is a big obstacle to ever
feeling at home there. On the other hand, I don't look completely Chinese
either.
Anywhere else in the world, I wouldn't even have any ancestry as a
connection, and it would be even harder to be accepted.
Here in America, at least there are job opportunities, regardless of your
race. Having the US border police welcome me home makes me realize that
this is in fact my home, for better or for worse.
--
- millipede man
Tibet has been, is, and will remain part of the Chinese empire:
http://www.index-china.com/index-english/Tibet-s.html
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| User: "Maggie" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
10 Jul 2005 08:43:30 AM |
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YR I had never pictured you as German/Chinese heritage. i sort of
thought you were italian!
Anyway, have you ever considerd living in Honollulu, Hawaii? I lived
there and found it very easy to be happy there. Beautiful physical
presence, nice pepole "Aloha Spritit: excellent weather and it's oh so
easy to be a little excentic there because the really don't care.
And, in your case, the huge majority of the people are "happa Haole",
like yourself. it means multi racial. /they have airports there, too.
Maggie
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| User: "millipede man" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
10 Jul 2005 08:48:21 AM |
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Maggie wrote:
YR I had never pictured you as German/Chinese heritage. i sort of
thought you were italian!
lol. Maybe it's my Godfather-like personality? :)
Anyway, have you ever considerd living in Honollulu, Hawaii? I lived
there and found it very easy to be happy there. Beautiful physical
presence, nice pepole "Aloha Spritit: excellent weather and it's oh so
easy to be a little excentic there because the really don't care.
I think I would have difficulty tolerating the heat (even Southern
California is too hot for me), but otherwise it would be a good idea.
And, in your case, the huge majority of the people are "happa Haole",
like yourself. it means multi racial. /they have airports there, too.
Maggie
Yes, I know. I have met some people from Hawaii. Thanks for the
suggestion, and if I could stand the heat, I might have considered
moving there!
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- millipede man
Tibet has been, is, and will remain part of the Chinese empire:
http://www.index-china.com/index-english/Tibet-s.html
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| User: "Contrarian" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
12 Jul 2005 09:27:47 AM |
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millipede man <huaMMMngm@eartmmmhlinmmmk.mmmnet> wrote:
Going through the immigration checkpoint at the airport and having the
border patrol (?) agent say "Welcome home!" or "Welcome back!" after
swiping my passport, made me realize that this is my home after all.
belated welcome back m.m.
how was the trip?
--
but the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In... HST (1967)
when i got to the edge , i built a deck % (2005)
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| User: "friend of the millipedes" |
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| Title: Re: America isn't perfect, but it's my home |
12 Jul 2005 10:03:34 PM |
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Contrarian wrote:
belated welcome back m.m.
how was the trip?
It was a nice break, thanks. I'm glad to be back home with my millis,
though.
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- friend of the millipedes
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