6/11 Possible Terror Threat — Page 2

It's just another one of those stupid Pc things where no matter waht word you use, it develops a negative connotation and becomes wrong.

I used to work at a facility where the people with mental retardation were called residents. That became un-PC, so the term was changed to client. That made sense, a client receiving services. Soon, client became a negative word becasue the clients started to think that it meant mentally retarded. So we switched to consuers. When that became a negative term, we started calling them individuals. That soon became wrong so we had to change our whole way of speaking so that when you referred to the group you always said "the people who live here."

All teh while our funding was coming from the State Department Of Mental Health and Retardation...go figure

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"[i]f they just want to cause mayhem and, you know, terror, they might issue a threat and laugh as everyone panics."

somehow i just don't see the folks of islamic jihad, al qaeda getting much enjoyment out of a false alarm. their smiles come from the satisfaction of watching infidel blood run red in the streets. i think that the traditional definition of terrorism is lacking anymore. 9/11 was not an act of terrorism, but an act of war.

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no, it's a war against militant islamicists who've hijacked a religion and use the name of god to convince children to blow themselves up in a nihilistic quest for a return to worldwide domination by the umma. that specific act (9/11) was committed by a group (al qaeda) that was being subsidized and protected by a state government (the taliban). at it's heart it's a war against wahhabism which translates to a war against intolerance. odd isn't it that a president accused of, and often guilty of, intolerance, is waging a war agaainst it? the current front in iraq is a chance to prove that a secular state can function in the midst of all the tyrannies and that all people can, if given the chance, prosper and drag their country with them into the 21st century. it will show that islam need not dominate the government to serve it's people, but can exist side by side with christianity, judaism, hinduism and every other -ism. if it succeeds, future generations will look back on this time in history as the moment that the world chose law and order and human rights over the decaying theocracies that would drag the world back into the middle ages.

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see, won't it be nice to live in a world where even iraqi and iranian and syrian and saudi trannies and she-males can live their lives in drag without fear of forcible conversion (the snip snip sans anesthetic) followed by stoning? ok, maybe that's still a few years down the road...but if the mullah omars and osamas and arafats of the world win, it's not even a dream.

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Oh, yay.

-Plum, going to Israel in a week

ok, retard.

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what about challenged?

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I heard the first 500 people who forward this email to Bill Gates get $5000. Who knows, it just might work, right?

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What's his email address?

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i think mentally retarded is better than calling them 'special' which i find rather condescending.
Disability is another fun word. Sometimes its pc, sometimes its not... i think it depends on the weather. although, I did prefer physically challenged.
I get letters from employment companies geared towards placing people with various problems in the job market and one of them kind of amused me. They had the word disability in their program title but they capitalized the a, so it was disAbility. sigh. Now thats just trying too hard.