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To: Canuck Dave who wrote (220263)	8/28/2012 3:42:57 PM
From: stuffbug	2 Recommendations Respond to of 313992

"Doing something for average Canadians" Translation: Let's get more money into the pockets of the union members. Then we can raise dues so as to allow the union leaders and bosses to live like kings and queens. And while we care deeply about the plight of all workers, we care much more for the union workers upon whose backs this country was built. (i.e. All workers are equal but some are more equal than others.) Yup, they are all hypocrites of the highest order - and some are more hypocritical than others.

To: Canuck Dave who wrote (220263)	8/28/2012 7:43:53 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 313992

'societies boil down to a contradiction' - there's an actress in the US name of Reese Witherspoon, has ancestor John W who was a signer, and likely author of the 'divine Providence' line, of the Declaration of Loot All Ya Want Boyz Go For It in 1776, he had a negro slave who was the first liberated by judges in Scotland, 1790s or so, and he resisted it mightily, also showed precious little mercy for loyalist victims of that time ... some of his story told here - youtube.com If you like history that whole series is quite good, both seasons, very scots-centric of course ... one of the pieces shows how Sir Walter Scott pretty much invented not only Scotland as we know it, but Britain in the modern sense, tartans and bagpipes and the noble highlander and all that, victorians lapped it up, somewhat to the consternation of lowlanders some of whom still shake their heads at being all lumped in together ... somewhere upthread months ago you mentioned a town in or about West Sussex, near where one of my g-g-grandmothers, having grown up in a family of french huguenots who over a couple of hundred years had become 'more english than the english', decided to research parallel roots supposedly at the time in Scotland, with mixed success, not much that was conclusively linked after a lot of money had been paid to London geneologists, but in the process became in a few superficial ways somewhat more scottish than the scots, to the point where she objected when one of her boys joined up with other than a highland regiment, other funny ways as well that were notable enough to be passed down, anyway the first link to this series was sent me by another of her descendents, very distant cousin with our modern sort of what we'd describe as cosmic sense of humour, probably would vote for George Carlin over Georges I-IV ... it's never going to be easy to govern human beings, especially for other human beings to do so [duh], at some point the machines will need to eliminate us to get things running smoothly