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To: SpaceBar
Splitting hairs on definitions seems like a silly academic exercise at this point in the game. Nothing is identical to something similar used to describe it unless they are the same thing.

I guess one man's splitting hairs is another man's making critical distinctions.

The value of using the actual name of something to describe it, is that it is identical to the thing being described.

61 posted on 08/15/2006 6:45:00 PM PDT by Urbane_Guerilla
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To: Urbane_Guerilla

I guess it really doesn't matter anyway. George Bush today backed off his characterization of "islamic fascists" and called them "an extremist group of folks". I kid you not.


87 posted on 08/15/2006 8:22:17 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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