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Griff 05-05-2010 05:01 PM
Read This
 
Finally, we should all probably calm down about politics. Most of the proposals we argue about so ferociously will have only marginal effects on how we live, especially compared with the ethnic, regional and social differences that we so studiously ignore.

This is the smart middle-right. I'd vote for it.

classicman 05-05-2010 05:34 PM
I like it.

xoxoxoBruce 05-05-2010 07:34 PM
Social fabric? I ain't got no social fabric. I ain't even got social threads. If I promote your social fabric, will you ensnare me in it, or will you leave me the fuck alone?

squirell nutkin 05-05-2010 07:49 PM
Is it too late to be Swedish?

Griff 05-05-2010 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by squirell nutkin (Post 654034)
Is it too late to be Swedish?
It is for me, but it wasn't too late for my kids, that's why I threw in with team Sweden. Even an Irishman can be rational if there is a snappy Swedish chick involved... yeah right, rational,... I believe I was thinking a little further down the brain stem.

spudcon 05-06-2010 05:32 AM
good culture and good human capital programs.

Who determines what "good culture" is? I find the culture and human capital much more humane away from the northeast centers of education and urban "sophistication."
I do like the Swedish Bikini Team though.

DanaC 05-06-2010 05:46 AM
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Therefore, the first rule of policy-making should be, don’t promulgate a policy that will destroy social bonds. If you take tribes of people, exile them from their homelands and ship them to strange, arid lands, you’re going to produce bad outcomes for generations.
This is important, for those people who think the civil rights abuses of yesteryear don't affect life chances today for those groups involved.

Spexxvet 05-06-2010 08:13 AM
I propose a constitutional ammendment that all American citizens must become Asian.

classicman 05-06-2010 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 654099)
This is important, for those people who think the civil rights abuses of yesteryear don't affect life chances today for those groups involved.
But but but. . . .
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Roughly a century ago, many Swedes immigrated to America. They’ve done very well here. Only about 6.7 percent of Swedish-Americans live in poverty. Also a century ago, many Swedes decided to remain in Sweden. They’ve done well there, too. When two economists calculated Swedish poverty rates according to the American standard, they found that 6.7 percent of the Swedes in Sweden were living in poverty.

Spexxvet 05-06-2010 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 654149)
But but but. . . .
I don't remember that Jim Crow laws targetted Swedes.

squirell nutkin 05-06-2010 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 654151)
I don't remember that Jim Crow laws targetted Swedes.
Revisionist history ;)

squirell nutkin 05-06-2010 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 654047)
It is for me, but it wasn't too late for my kids, that's why I threw in with team Sweden. Even an Irishman can be rational if there is a snappy Swedish chick involved... yeah right, rational,... I believe I was thinking a little further down the brain stem.
See, I went German. Then I find out that Swedes are Germans in human form. :smack:

Flint 05-06-2010 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 654118)
I propose a constitutional ammendment that all American citizens must become Asian.
Take THAT, premise of this article!

Sheldonrs 05-06-2010 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 654031)
Social fabric? I ain't got no social fabric. I ain't even got social threads. If I promote your social fabric, will you ensnare me in it, or will you leave me the fuck alone?
True. Unlike his diseases, Bruce's fabric is NOT social.

:D

squirell nutkin 05-06-2010 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Sheldonrs (Post 654225)
True. Unlike his diseases, Bruce's fabric is NOT social.

:D
Social disease? Who says that anymore? You're dating yourself Shel.
(Just don't get drunk and take advantage of yourself.);)


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