XPost: edm.general, can.general, can.politics   
   From: not4utono@   
      
   John Fleming wrote:   
   > [Default] On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 11:40:10 -0700, while chained to a desk   
   > in the scriptorium "Robert Weldon" wrote:   
   >> $"The Doctor" wrote in message   
   >> $news:l5j3b5$ist$1@gallifrey.nk.ca...   
   >> $> In article <652p79dnifqkvjcu6ljo0dp4t3sh9ik90p@4ax.com>,   
   >> $> John Fleming wrote:   
   >> $>>[Default] On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 11:34:33 -0700, while chained to a   
   >> desk $>>in the scriptorium "Robert Weldon"    
   >> wrote: $>>> $"The Doctor" wrote in message   
   >> $>>> $news:l5g4gh$8vi$1@gallifrey.nk.ca...   
   >> $>>> $> 11 Nov is coming. I finally got my poppy.   
   >> $>>> $>   
   >> $>>> $> I will attend a Remembrance Cereminy this Monday .   
   >> $>>> $   
   >> $>>> $Good for you. More people should honour the reason for this   
   >> day off. $>>> $   
   >> $>>> $> Let us recall that this weekend is remembrance weekend.   
   >> $>>> $   
   >> $>>> $It is a day, not a weekend.   
   >> $>>   
   >> $>>Don't confuse Mr. Yadallee here with facts.   
   >> $>>   
   >> $>>> $> Vimy Ridge, Liberation of the Extermation of Semites, the   
   >> $>>> $> halting of Communism.   
   >> $>>> $   
   >> $>>> $Strange wording there (Liberation of the Extermation of   
   >> Semites), and $>>> $Remembrance Day has nothing to do with halting   
   >> Communism. $>>   
   >> $>>Good point Robert. On Armistice Day in 1918, nobody was really   
   >> $>>thinking about halting Communism--except the White Russians.   
   >> $>>   
   >> $>>As to the other big war (WW2), the Communist Soviet Union was on   
   >> our $>>side at the end of the war.   
   >> $>>   
   >> $>>> $> LEst We Forget.   
   >> $>>   
   >> $>>You've already forgotten a few things.   
   >> $>>   
   >> $>   
   >> $> Looks like John forgot about the Korean War.   
   >> $>   
   >> $   
   >> $Rememberance Day was established long before that, and technically,   
   >> it was a $police action, not a war.   
   >> $   
   >> $-rest snipped   
   >   
   > And really, the purpose of Rememberance Day is to remember those   
   > Canadians who lost their lives in service to this country during war.   
   >   
   > It has nothing to do with promoting the doctor's McCarthyist ideology.   
      
   Pretty basic concept but then he does try and twist things to match his   
   imaginary agenda.   
      
   For me this youtube sums Remembrance Day   
      
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kX_3y3u5Uo   
      
      
      
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   "And the Doctor piglet went squealing all the way home"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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