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Well, you do know that Hitler

Bruce Levine — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:44:09 +0000

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Well, you do know that Hitler and his cronies were never really too fond of Berlin. Kind of a teeny bit of justice that Berlin is where he saw his end.

jollyroger — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:57:19 +0000

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Germany is probably one of a handful of nations in Europe that Jews remain fundamentally secure,

True, (and ironic). Germany today is one of the most liberal societies around--I believe that the gay mayor of Berlin is a serious contender for the next chancellor. Put together with the strongly pacifist tendency in Japan, and we see that nothing is forever.

Peracles,

Bruce Levine — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:17:01 +0000

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Peracles,

I'm off to "paperless office training" for old dogs needing to learn new tricks. When I started working for the USDOL after law school in 1986, we had one fax machine in the office and only the head solicitor and office manager were allowed to go near it.

Look, I won't lie to you and pretend that I'm happy with much of what you wrote, or how I feel you sometimes choose to debate. But please do accept my apology for whatever part that I played in causing you to fly the coop. FWIW, I have learned from you and I hope you understand that in my world that's a real compliment. And it's genuine.

With a limited amount of free time that I have in real life (like many of us I'm sure), the last thing I want to do is discuss important issues among the converted. On this I know we agree.

As to the "team" thing, as you know it's an expression, and I used it at the wrong time. The last thing I'd want to do is hide behind other folks and "other" you or anyone else. Heaven forbid. I cannot speak for others who chose to run with my use of the term for other purposes.

This place is not the same without you Peracles.

Peace brother.

Bruce

Not offended. I repent of

Aaron Carine — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:15:26 +0000

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Not offended. I repent of straying off topic.

Gotta go to work and did not

Bruce Levine — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:59:57 +0000

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Gotta go to work and did not mean to offend you.

I guess we are getting off

Aaron Carine — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:57:56 +0000

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I guess we are getting off-topic.

Aaron, you're the best, but

Bruce Levine — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:20:57 +0000

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Aaron, you're the best, but not on this thread, please!

You have to have the

Bruce Levine — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:18:53 +0000

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You have to have the appropriate "stuff" in the water to brine a good corned beef.

As I remember it, you

Aaron Carine — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:52:54 +0000

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As I remember it, you defended the coup on the grounds that Allende had nationalized industries. Also, Chile was not lucky getting a democracy replaced by a bloody dictatorship. In the real world, the alternative to Pinochet wasn't mass slaughter, it was democracy.

Peracles did not "support the

Anonymous PP — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:03:01 +0000

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Peracles did not "support the CIA's overthrow of Allende" - he noted that a leader embracing bloodthirsty Communists, ISIS, Nazis, Khmer Rouge, KKK racists, Taliban, or other horrid fringes of society can cause a country to panic and respond in a bloody overblown fashion. In Indonesia, the response to Communist intrigue was 500,000 Indonesians killed. This is the real world, boys and girls. Relatively speaking, Chile was lucky.

Re: "at least one regular poster. stopped posting after things got tense in the comment thread", if it refers to me, I stopped posting because I got tired of re-explaining ad nauseum what I saw as fairly obvious points like paragraph #1. For politeness' sake, I'll spare you my thoughts on UK kosher delis.