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regardless of their beliefs or national origins. It amazes me to find
otherwise intelligent people who are in some ways quite bigotted.
Perhaps it short circuits the intellectual process to have the PC,
"Its true because we say so". Maybe the discussions have to be
had every time there is opportunity for discussion.
"NoMoreChess" <nomorechess@wmconnect.comkillspam> wrote in message
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> Wouldn't "northern Europe" include places like Bosnia?
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> Right. And my guess is that of those you listed, the U.S. leads in both
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> Actually, Australia was originally "settled" by the aborigines, and
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> America, by the indians. The white man came along later, stealing their
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> Where man first evolved from a small rat-like creature. :-)
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> Especially Germany, which "led the way" in taking over Lasker's assets,
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> But Japan led-the-way in Go.
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> other race (not counting albinos, which are not technically a race).
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> All our over-grazing and strip-mining turned the formerly lush Sahara
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> How do you know he would still be doing this, if "we" had not
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> Are you psychic or something? He could have caught some disease, and
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> Actually, the rest of the world already hated us, even before we deposed
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> Take Bobby Fischer, for example. he hated the US enough back in
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> longterm support of Zionism and Apartheid, among other things.
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> Why, *we* can, of course! Playing the game of shifting-the-blame can be
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> Man, I guess the pundits finally got tired of bashing Alekhine, and
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> for once to have a go at Lasker, for a change of pace. Finding precious
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> trick, noting that he was, after all, from Germany, and from a *time* in
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