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1 hour ago, MikeD said:

I was in Atlanta for a business meeting way back in the late 80's. In a bar/restaurant outside of the city I was having dinner and playing shuffleboard. One woman sitting at the bar overheard me talking, turned to her friend and said "Oh, a d**** Yankee" and went back to her drink.   😀

In 1990 I was on our annual Fall Field Tour of Duty with a military organization whose HQ's is Faneuil Hall.  We were in Cannes and having some fun at the large casino.  From the craps table, about every 15-20 minutes, some of our well lubricated members at the main bar would start singing O Canada.  No Americans got blamed that night.

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On 7/7/2020 at 1:06 PM, cixelsyd said:

(And again, let me be clear.  I oppose discrimination, in all its forms.  Therefore, I prefer equal opportunities.)

You've probably seen this cartoon before (there are multiple versions in circulation), but just in case not:

Equity-Equality-Graphic-1.jpeg

I agree with you that everyone deserves an equal opportunity. It's a question of what equal opportunity means. Or as Martin Luther King said in a 1967 interview: "it's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps".

And I would expect that this question of defining equality is part of what Cadets are considering.

 

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8 hours ago, N.E. Brigand said:

You've probably seen this cartoon before (there are multiple versions in circulation), but just in case not:

Equity-Equality-Graphic-1.jpeg

I agree with you that everyone deserves an equal opportunity. It's a question of what equal opportunity means. Or as Martin Luther King said in a 1967 interview: "it's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps".

And I would expect that this question of defining equality is part of what Cadets are considering.

 

To be honest, this cartoon makes no sense to me.  The middle frame represents both equal opportunity and equal outcome.  The other two would never happen.  If you are tall enough to see over the fence, you would not perch yourself on top of a box, much less seven of them.

We all know where this goes next.  You will spend your day scouring the Internet for better cartoons.  I will spend my day enjoying the opportunities available to me.  The two of us have equal opportunity, but will we have equal outcomes?

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On 7/9/2020 at 10:13 AM, Continental said:

Cherry Cheesecake - mmmm

Still not as good as chocolate and peanut butter Cheesecake. 

Satisfyingly DECADENT!!!

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2 hours ago, cixelsyd said:

To be honest, this cartoon makes no sense to me.  The middle frame represents both equal opportunity and equal outcome.  The other two would never happen.  If you are tall enough to see over the fence, you would not perch yourself on top of a box, much less seven of them.

We all know where this goes next.  You will spend your day scouring the Internet for better cartoons.  I will spend my day enjoying the opportunities available to me.  The two of us have equal opportunity, but will we have equal outcomes?

Many things regarding the ideology that this cartoon represents don't make logical sense. I don't believe these things are intended to make sense, they're designed to get an emotional response. 

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18 minutes ago, dans said:

Many things regarding the ideology that this cartoon represents don't make logical sense. I don't believe these things are intended to make sense, they're designed to get an emotional response. 

Just like Peanuts.  Totally embedded with alternative references that make no logical sense. 

Note the social distancing in the attached video.  It is completely predicative of current events yet occurred decades ago.

The dirty one playing the bass is also clearly showing the Corona he is infected with. 

 

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12 hours ago, Ghost said:

From the craps table, about every 15-20 minutes, some of our well lubricated members at the main bar would start singing O Canada.  No Americans got blamed that night.

They should have asked them to sing the French lyrics to O'Canada.

They would have known at that point. 

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1 hour ago, Continental said:

Just like Peanuts.  Totally embedded with alternative references that make no logical sense. 

Note the social distancing in the attached video.  It is completely predicative of current events yet occurred decades ago.

The dirty one playing the bass is also clearly showing the Corona he is infected with. 

 

Is that skevinp at the bottom?

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