(08-14-2013 02:07 PM)Paul M Wrote:  

(08-14-2013 01:58 PM)WPDAWG08 Wrote:  Their are too many idiots here for me to get upset imo

When is the spelling police officer going to come and scold that guy for using "their"?

(08-14-2013 02:09 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(08-14-2013 02:07 PM)Paul M Wrote:  

(08-14-2013 01:58 PM)WPDAWG08 Wrote:  Their are too many idiots here for me to get upset imo

When is the spelling police officer going to come and scold that guy for using "their"?

I'm guilty of that one at times so I let it slide.

I was going to issue a citation for it, but let it slide because of his correct usage of "too".

I believe positive reinforcement can also be effective

I would like the Museum cover other episodes of genocide as well. What happened to the Jews also happened to the Chinese during the Cultural Revolution, in Cambodia, in Rwanda, in North Korea, in Burma.

Some of y'all are sick puppies.
Hope you are trying to be funny.
P.S.- If so, was a fail.

Lighten up Francis.

(08-15-2013 06:25 AM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Some of y'all are sick puppies.
Hope you are trying to be funny.
P.S.- If so, was a fail.

You realize nobody here is making light of the Holocaust, right?

Why did I know RobertN would gravitate towards this thread?

Is this how Obama plans on exterminating his political opponents? First he'll identify them using the NSA, then target them using the IRS(oops too late) , then when the government has all of our medical records and the IRS, who previously targeted conservative groups, will selectively target conservatives for higher premiums and/or auditing. Finally the bureaucratic machine administering Obamacare will deny claims to conservatives.

Positive Rep me and I'll vote for Obama in 2016

(08-14-2013 09:05 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  I would like the Museum cover other episodes of genocide as well. What happened to the Jews also happened to the Chinese during the Cultural Revolution, in Cambodia, in Rwanda, in North Korea, in Burma.

I disagree to this to an extent... it seems the same as diluting things like amber alerts with the horrid "my ex-husband didn't drop off the kids on time" (those were explicitly and puposefully excluded in the original alerts). The holocaust was a singular event and I think deserves to be remembered in its own context. That said, I think that "never again" places a unique burden on Jews worldwide to expose, prevent, and relieve genocide worldwide when it does occur.

One of the problems with what you propose is that Armenians would certainly demand their own sections, and once you do so, it becomes a target of derision from Turks, and the message for Muslims is that you equate the Holocaust, which hopefully one day Muslims will stop disputing in large numbers, with the vehemently disputed Armenian genocide, which was purportedly committed by Muslims, and as long as Turkey disputes it, probably would not be accepted by the Muslim world.

No one with any intelligence rejects the final solution.

BTW...Lighten up on the spelling bashing. We are not writing a damn thesis here.

(08-15-2013 06:55 AM)I45owl Wrote:  

(08-14-2013 09:05 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  I would like the Museum cover other episodes of genocide as well. What happened to the Jews also happened to the Chinese during the Cultural Revolution, in Cambodia, in Rwanda, in North Korea, in Burma.

I disagree to this to an extent... it seems the same as diluting things like amber alerts with the horrid "my ex-husband didn't drop off the kids on time" (those were explicitly and puposefully excluded in the original alerts). The holocaust was a singular event and I think deserves to be remembered in its own context. That said, I think that "never again" places a unique burden on Jews worldwide to expose, prevent, and relieve genocide worldwide when it does occur.

One of the problems with what you propose is that Armenians would certainly demand their own sections, and once you do so, it becomes a target of derision from Turks, and the message for Muslims is that you equate the Holocaust, which hopefully one day Muslims will stop disputing in large numbers, with the vehemently disputed Armenian genocide, which was purportedly committed by Muslims, and as long as Turkey disputes it, probably would not be accepted by the Muslim world.

Holocaust means burnt offering.

Ignoring the etymology and limiting the term to one hyperbolically labeled event is crazy talk.

But it's what we do in America, we advantageously change the meaning of words.

(08-15-2013 08:25 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  No one with any intelligence rejects the final solution.

BTW...Lighten up on the spelling bashing. We are not writing a damn thesis here.

Shizzle, I think that's why we're having fun... cause honestly, I don't think anyone here is a holocaust denier... so it was one of those question that just lent itself to being made fun of..

and then the stone just kept rolling downhill :)

(08-15-2013 08:25 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  No one with any intelligence rejects the final solution.

BTW...Lighten up on the spelling bashing. We are not writing a damn thesis here.

You're right about the spelling.......... but I did actually laugh out loud when I read the first few posts after the original, "costs of hauling" stuff.

Still makes me laugh.............

(08-15-2013 10:41 AM)AngryAphid Wrote:  

(08-15-2013 06:55 AM)I45owl Wrote:  

(08-14-2013 09:05 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  I would like the Museum cover other episodes of genocide as well. What happened to the Jews also happened to the Chinese during the Cultural Revolution, in Cambodia, in Rwanda, in North Korea, in Burma.

I disagree to this to an extent... it seems the same as diluting things like amber alerts with the horrid "my ex-husband didn't drop off the kids on time" (those were explicitly and puposefully excluded in the original alerts). The holocaust was a singular event and I think deserves to be remembered in its own context. That said, I think that "never again" places a unique burden on Jews worldwide to expose, prevent, and relieve genocide worldwide when it does occur.

One of the problems with what you propose is that Armenians would certainly demand their own sections, and once you do so, it becomes a target of derision from Turks, and the message for Muslims is that you equate the Holocaust, which hopefully one day Muslims will stop disputing in large numbers, with the vehemently disputed Armenian genocide, which was purportedly committed by Muslims, and as long as Turkey disputes it, probably would not be accepted by the Muslim world.

Holocaust means burnt offering.

Ignoring the etymology and limiting the term to one hyperbolically labeled event is crazy talk.

But it's what we do in America, we advantageously change the meaning of words.

The purpose of the museums are to commemorate the event and the purposeful, overt, and systematic attempt to extinguish a race. Focussing on etymology and calling the use of the word hyperbole is just an incremental step above the spelling corrections above in is thread. The museums weren't created to commemorate a word and then seek instances for which they apply...

(08-14-2013 08:17 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  I've denied hauling costs here and there, when the weight ticket didn't match the BOL.

Just wait till it gets re-classed!

(08-15-2013 08:25 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  No one with any intelligence rejects the final solution.

BTW...Lighten up on the spelling bashing. We are not writing a damn thesis here.

I would ask that you address me directly, good sir.

(08-15-2013 04:03 PM)I45owl Wrote:  

(08-15-2013 10:41 AM)AngryAphid Wrote:  

(08-15-2013 06:55 AM)I45owl Wrote:  

(08-14-2013 09:05 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  I would like the Museum cover other episodes of genocide as well. What happened to the Jews also happened to the Chinese during the Cultural Revolution, in Cambodia, in Rwanda, in North Korea, in Burma.

I disagree to this to an extent... it seems the same as diluting things like amber alerts with the horrid "my ex-husband didn't drop off the kids on time" (those were explicitly and puposefully excluded in the original alerts). The holocaust was a singular event and I think deserves to be remembered in its own context. That said, I think that "never again" places a unique burden on Jews worldwide to expose, prevent, and relieve genocide worldwide when it does occur.

One of the problems with what you propose is that Armenians would certainly demand their own sections, and once you do so, it becomes a target of derision from Turks, and the message for Muslims is that you equate the Holocaust, which hopefully one day Muslims will stop disputing in large numbers, with the vehemently disputed Armenian genocide, which was purportedly committed by Muslims, and as long as Turkey disputes it, probably would not be accepted by the Muslim world.

Holocaust means burnt offering.

Ignoring the etymology and limiting the term to one hyperbolically labeled event is crazy talk.

But it's what we do in America, we advantageously change the meaning of words.

The purpose of the museums are to commemorate the event and the purposeful, overt, and systematic attempt to extinguish a race. Focussing on etymology and calling the use of the word hyperbole is just an incremental step above the spelling corrections above in is thread. The museums weren't created to commemorate a word and then seek instances for which they apply...

I'm fully support the mission of the museum(s), and I have no problem with them calling it "Holocaust".

I'm saying we shouldn't take a term like Holocaust and exclusively apply it to one event. Particularly when the word has an ordinal distinct meaning quite different from it's present exaggerated use.

If we are going to solely assign words to one isolated event, we should go ahead and give the word Pink to Susan G. Komen.

(08-15-2013 04:18 PM)Paul M Wrote:  

(08-15-2013 08:25 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  No one with any intelligence rejects the final solution.

BTW...Lighten up on the spelling bashing. We are not writing a damn thesis here.

I would ask that you address me directly, good sir.

The ironic thing is I spell checked thesis.