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Mayday!
Happy MAYDAY!
Hurray for the 8-hour day! Hurray for the right to organize! Hurray for the end of child labor! Hurray for safer working conditions! Hurray for the minum wage! Hurray for Social Security! Hurray for Universal Medical Care . . . oh wait, we Americans don't have that one . . . YET!
Eight hours for work!
Eight hours for sleep!
And eight hours for what we will!
Let us remember our fallen comrades who made these victories possible and gave us all a better life.
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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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May 1, 2003, 12:12
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In Argentina they have one. I would of got it off anyways because I have an IB exam tomorrow.
A better life? LOL.. if you are talking about your hero Che Guevara.. well ask the great Bolivian Armed Forces what they think.
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edit by MtG - no links to pictures of corpses. BTW, to get his head propped up at the right angle for the cameramen, they slit his throat after he was "executed." Nice guys, huh?
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Keep communism out. Keep capitalism in.
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Lets face it. We flamiing queers have more appeal then Pat Robertson and other religious wackos. We have shows that are really growing in popularity. We have more channels (Q TV, Logo Channel). And we help people in their style issues (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy). The last thing I saw a religious preacher did was ask for $5 in a "generous pledge" to help his bank account in Zurich, erhm, some starving kids in Zimbabwe.
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May 1, 2003, 12:17
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So where's the Maypole?
(Umm, so who's working these alleged 8 hour workdays?  )
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May 1, 2003, 12:19
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Sorry MtG... just showing what the great Bolivian Armed Forces did to protect the country's sovergnity. All that Che did was go and kill people. He went to Angola and killed a bunch of people.
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Lets face it. We flamiing queers have more appeal then Pat Robertson and other religious wackos. We have shows that are really growing in popularity. We have more channels (Q TV, Logo Channel). And we help people in their style issues (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy). The last thing I saw a religious preacher did was ask for $5 in a "generous pledge" to help his bank account in Zurich, erhm, some starving kids in Zimbabwe.
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May 1, 2003, 12:19
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 Mayday
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(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
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May 1, 2003, 12:24
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I don't celebrate it, but I recognize the efforts of those who have made sacrifices.
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May 1, 2003, 12:25
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Time for a joke which fits the day:
Question : What's 2 meters long, smells of cheap, old vodka, and has a medium age of way over 50 years?
Answer : Traditional communist march of 1st of May.
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May 1, 2003, 12:25
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Originally posted by Edan
So where's the Maypole?
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That's for the pagans.
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(Umm, so who's working these alleged 8 hour workdays? )
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Believe it or not, some Americans still have 8-hour days. Since I don't get time and a half for OT, I still do 40-hour weeks, and mostly 8-hour days. Some times a little more, sometimes a little less.
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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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May 1, 2003, 12:27
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I'm waiting for someone to say how the 8 hour day is a commie/leftist conspiracy and should be done away with.
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May 1, 2003, 12:55
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Down with capitalism, imperialism, and bigotry!
Happy mayday!
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May 1, 2003, 12:57
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Good thing we don't celebrate Mayday here in the States.
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May 1, 2003, 12:58
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May 1, 2003, 12:59
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Happy Family-Day!
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May 1, 2003, 13:09
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My dad's got one of the Vietnam-era May Day posters in a frame in his office. I can't remember what year it's from--it's a "plan" for thousands of protesters to descend on Washington and occupy all the government buildings until the US pulled out of Vietnam. He went and was duly tear-gassed, but I don't think they managed to occupy the Pentagon.
"If the government won't stop the war, the people will stop the government."
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May 1, 2003, 13:13
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May day is an old pagan celibration which communists co-opted and tried to turn into an international workers celibration. Of course they aren't the only ones to do stuff like this the Christians choose December 25th to celibraite Christ's birthday because most pagans already used that day as a New Year's Celebration.
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Christianity is the belief in a cosmic Jewish zombie who can give us eternal life if we symbolically eat his flesh and blood and telepathically tell him that we accept him as our lord and master so he can remove an evil force present in all humanity because a woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from an apple tree.
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May 1, 2003, 13:23
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May Day is such a filthy tradition.
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Down with capitalism, imperialism, and bigotry!
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Three words that have nothing to do with each other.
Down with communism and its filthy antics.
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Lets face it. We flamiing queers have more appeal then Pat Robertson and other religious wackos. We have shows that are really growing in popularity. We have more channels (Q TV, Logo Channel). And we help people in their style issues (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy). The last thing I saw a religious preacher did was ask for $5 in a "generous pledge" to help his bank account in Zurich, erhm, some starving kids in Zimbabwe.
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May 1, 2003, 13:35
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Hands up everyone who opened this thread thinking that Che was sinking.
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May 1, 2003, 13:37
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Originally posted by Fez
May Day is such a filthy tradition.
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Down with capitalism, imperialism, and bigotry!
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Three words that have nothing to do with each other.
Down with communism and its filthy antics.
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 Somebody sure has a revisionist version of history, eh?
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May 1, 2003, 13:39
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King
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Sava, bull. I know exactly what I am talking about. Capitalism means freedom.
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Lets face it. We flamiing queers have more appeal then Pat Robertson and other religious wackos. We have shows that are really growing in popularity. We have more channels (Q TV, Logo Channel). And we help people in their style issues (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy). The last thing I saw a religious preacher did was ask for $5 in a "generous pledge" to help his bank account in Zurich, erhm, some starving kids in Zimbabwe.
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May 1, 2003, 13:40
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Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Hands up everyone who opened this thread thinking that Che was sinking.
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May 1, 2003, 13:41
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Yup, good ol' Fez is back!
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May 1, 2003, 13:45
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Nope.
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Lets face it. We flamiing queers have more appeal then Pat Robertson and other religious wackos. We have shows that are really growing in popularity. We have more channels (Q TV, Logo Channel). And we help people in their style issues (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy). The last thing I saw a religious preacher did was ask for $5 in a "generous pledge" to help his bank account in Zurich, erhm, some starving kids in Zimbabwe.
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May 1, 2003, 13:48
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May 1, 2003, 13:50
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Originally posted by Oerdin
May day is an old pagan celibration which communists co-opted and tried to turn into an international workers celibration.
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They didn't try. They did.
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May 1, 2003, 13:53
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Originally posted by Fez
Sava, bull. I know exactly what I am talking about. Capitalism means freedom.
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And Nazi fascism meant freedom too - for Hitler.
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May 1, 2003, 13:54
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Please Fez, linking capitalism to bigotry is very discussable, but if you deny any link between capitalism and imperialism, you don't know squat about the politics and economics of the end of the 19th & the beginning of the 20th century... 
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May 1, 2003, 13:55
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You people are full of it. Plain and simple.
No it is not discussable. It is a fact. Capitalism = freedom.
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And Nazi fascism meant freedom too - for Hitler.
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Hitler was a leftist.
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Lets face it. We flamiing queers have more appeal then Pat Robertson and other religious wackos. We have shows that are really growing in popularity. We have more channels (Q TV, Logo Channel). And we help people in their style issues (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy). The last thing I saw a religious preacher did was ask for $5 in a "generous pledge" to help his bank account in Zurich, erhm, some starving kids in Zimbabwe.
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May 1, 2003, 13:58
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Originally posted by Maniac
Please Fez, linking capitalism to bigotry is very discussable, but if you deny any link between capitalism and imperialism, you don't know squat about the politics and economics of the end of the 19th & the beginning of the 20th century...
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Perhaps he's ignorant of working conditions before WW2. 20 hour days, child labor, unsafe conditions... all in the name of profit. In fact, socially minded presidents like Teddy and FDR instituted such great improvements to this country. But Fez wants to return to the good old days when trusts and tycoons effectively ruled the country.
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May 1, 2003, 13:58
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Re: Mayday!
For once (well not really once) I agree with you wholeheartedly and completely
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May 1, 2003, 13:58
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