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Daunce, 1) I did my time at Mount A, not Dal. Though Sloane did do an 8 HOUR SHOW for our frosh week. 2) Sydney Academy had a Gaelic class but I avoided it. I do have a friend whose ex-gf was fluent in it. She is literally the only Caper I met who was. Yes, CB does have a gaelic college. I have no idea how it stayed open. My Hebrew is stronger than my Gaelic and my Hebrew isn't enough to get me through a hot dog stand. 3) Joel "Lauchlin" Mac Donald. From the Isle of Skye, then to the Bras D'or... Bra's Dor... Strange, you spend your whole life swimming there but can't spell it for strangers We owned a good chunk of Cape Breton in the late 1800's. Highlights included naming natural landmarks and telling Bell to go jump in a lake. Enough about me, what about you?

Howard Roark chilling with his BFF

Everyone in my neck of the woods does.

I feel like a racist but when I read "respect your women" my brain heard, "Move Bitch! Get out the way!"

Bingo, at the time the song takes place Sherbrooke did not exist.

No Anne Murray. How bout some people who used to live on rez at Dal? Fine.... Anne Murray http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVNj9Pl-i7I

There is a famous inaccuracy in that song. What was it? Hint: Its a biggie.

Let's see, Atlantic songs.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-PQbdmQRwc How's that for irony?

Ahh no way. I used to go skating there in elementary and junior high.

A key problem with the OL community is troll bait doesn't offer the same swarm it would on 4ARF or OO.net. Over on OO for example I would have several posters tripping over themselves to prove their Dickension credentials by now. I tip my hat off to you all.

The Glory of Galt shines upon them! May they crush the putrid bodies of their enemies!

From the Missouri government website http://www.senate.mo.gov/11info/bts_web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=4124271

Last time the leafs won Jerusalem was Arab.

No trolling I do will ever be as epic as that. Also, those guys got waaayyyyy too close!

I've skimmed the source material, I plan on reading it in more detail after exams.

My best friends on the Cape are Maronites. Not kidding. The Libbus Clan are not to be trifled with.

You've routinely mentioned the connection between Husayni's ties to Axis powers and the fate of Israelis and Palestinians. I find the connection you imply overblown honestly. While its no secret Husayni was an evil man who did his best to corrupt Islam with Nazi ideology its practical effect was limited. I think it also distracts from the actual causes of the unrest in 47-8, causes still at work today. When I look at the actual practical effects of Husayni's Nazism on the Palestinian population it is very, very limited. I do not know the circulation of Husayni's propaganda in Palestine but I know he was heavily opposed by the people. The Nashabishi and other tribes resented his dictatorship, even going as far as accepting negotiation with Zionism. Husayni's crown achievement - outside of raising a small army to attack Arab Muslim targets in Egypt, Transjordan and Iraq - was raising a small Balkan army for the Axis powers. Not a Palestinian "SS" but a Balkan one. Keep in mind at this point in the war the SS was not really the Nordic, Pagan society but a State on its own with Arab, French and even Slavic units. An adherence to Nazi ideology was not nearly as relevant as more guns on the battlefield. Husayni was also sidelined in the Palestinian movement when the war broke out. Show me leaders in Arab Salvation Army, Arab League, or Islamic clergy at the time expressing ideas with clear roots in Nazism as opposed to Arab Socialism or Islam and I will reevaluate my opinion. Not only, IMHO, was Husayni's Nazism irrelevant but it masks his blame in crucial respects. Its widely known that Palestine is not burdened by a glut of competent leadership. What is not widely known is Husayni is largely the problem's cause. In the 20's Husayni had the option of forming an Arab Agency, parallel to the Jewish Agency, under British supervision. The Jews had successfully built up trade unions, postal services, health care, political parties and even an army through the Jewish Agency. Husayni refused the offer, his national pride would not give an inch. As a result the Palestinian class most needed to form a government - the doctors, lawyers, teachers and so on - were forced to be British employees. When the British pulled out this class - a full one hundred thousand - moved to Egyptian, Syrian, Jordanian and Iraqi labor markets. Palestine was effectively decapitated by Husayni's pride before a shot had been fired by the Jews. The long term damage this caused is obvious. 60 years after the war Palestine is just beginning to develop democratic institutions plagued by corruption, tribal conflicts and an underdeveloped economy. As the board anti-zionist I also believe the emphasis on Husayni's Nazism distracts from the real grievances of the Palestinians which fueled both the Nakba and the current conflicts. The Zionists displaced and thus angered the Palestinian Fellahin. They had been made homeless - by the Hundreds of Thousands - through Jewish land purchases of dubious legitimacy. Unable to integrate into an intentionally designed racist labor market in the Yishuv the Palestinians were left without a political solution (thanks to Husayni). You do not need Nazism to explain a violent resistance which predates Hitler by decades. This same economic displacement continued through the Occupation. It was illegal for Palestinians to set up a wide variety of businesses, constant embargoes made any trade difficult forcing the Arabs to become cheap labor for Israel. This continues today with a system of check points, routine land and resource expropriation, and trade embargoes. I fail to see how Nazism is required to explain the Palestinian reaction.

That's One Hundred a Day!!!!!!!!

Words can not describe how much I am looking forward to this! I truly hope the movie portrays the novel in all its plodding, one dimensional, pedantic Glory!

I could never get into AJ Arabic. Other than the few words that sound Hebrew (which I barely know), I'm lost

AJ is one of the few news agencies I hold in regard. Riz Khan and the Listening Post are excellent programs. What have been your observations of AJ Arabic vs AJ English?

You're joking, right? I mean it was Ashcroft.....

In fairness to Selene, he did say "news".

Not sure what it is I just read. This being an Objectivist community I'm looking for the moral of the story. That someone in these parts could be brave enough to use art to tell the truth as it is seems positively incredible. I liked the story.