XPost: alt.politics.immigration, alt.drugs.pot   
   From: ixnayamspay_klaatu@earthops.net   
      
   T.D. Shadow wrote:   
   > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 05:36:31 GMT, Delta Nine   
   >  wrote:   
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   >   
   >>What's the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?   
   >>   
   >>One's a scumsucking bottom-feeder and the other's a fish.   
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   > Changing the subject (what else is new):   
   >   
   > What's the difference between a grocery bag and Michael Jackson?   
   >   
   > One is white, plastic, and dangerous for children to play with,   
   > the other one you carry groceries in.   
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   > ObTopic:  Who were the Aryans?  Were/are they a REAL race of people,   
   > or an ideal to "shoot for" ?   
      
   The closest thing you're going to find to "Aryans" are the related   
   tribes of Afghanistan, Persia, and the non-Slavic people of the Balkans.   
      
   They're generally believed to be the people who never quite made it into   
   India, headed up north generally to present-day Afghanistan, migrated   
   west and north into the "Fertile Crescent" and along the way   
   domesticated wheat, peas, horses, cattle, pigs and goats, and from there   
   migrated farther north and west, eventually replacing most of the native   
   peoples except for the Basque and probably the Lapps, etc.   
      
   An excellent and thick book on the subject of these migrations is Jared   
   Diamond's "Guns Germs and Steel".   
      
      
      
      
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   often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,   
   of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.   
                      --Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire   
      
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