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Black councilwoman scolded by cops for inciting race riot, storms out of meeting (New York)
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| September 8, 2014
| Joe Saunders
Posted on 09/13/2014 4:48:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: DariusBane
Oh, puhleeeze. Are you an adolescent, or just imitating?
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posted on
09/13/2014 9:07:11 AM PDT
by
RitaOK
( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why didn’t she just shriek about racist, white bigoted cops and demand he be terminated? That would be a more typical response.
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posted on
09/13/2014 9:19:17 AM PDT
by
Spok
("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
To: Blennos
Trying to use big words that you don't understand can sometimes get you in trouble. I think she may have meant "decimate." Ah, yes "decimate" which most people use to mean "totally obliterate".
In fact decimate comes down to us from the Romans. When a Roman legion didn't meet expectations (didn't show the expected enthusiasm for slaughter!) the Centurion in charge of the laggard cohort was instructed to decimate the ranks.
This did not entail killing everyone as to do so would not encourage the required fighting spirit. Rather the Centurion was required to kill one man in ten (a 10% reduction). Applying this sort of object lesson encouraged the remaining troops to display an acceptable attitude without unnecessarily depleting the unit's strength.
I long for the old days, there was a certain clarity then that seems to be lost...
Regards,
GtG
PS One wonders what she would have thought of "niggardly"!
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posted on
09/13/2014 9:28:20 AM PDT
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: Gandalf_The_Gray
"Rather the Centurion was required to kill one man in ten (a 10% reduction)." The centurion didn't kill them - their own comrades were required to beat them to death.
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posted on
09/13/2014 9:35:03 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
(You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Even if she meant decimate, that only means destroy 1 out of 10."
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Right....Maybe she means devastate....I always think 1 of 10 when I see/hear decimate.
Wonder when decimate was first used for devastate.
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posted on
09/13/2014 10:36:32 AM PDT
by
hummingbird
(US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
To: RitaOK
Oh dear. Was that supposed to be pithy...? My teenage kids can do better than that.
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posted on
09/13/2014 12:41:53 PM PDT
by
DariusBane
(Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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