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Lowes Black Friday
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I do not click in to any link provided without some description. Perhaps you can use your fantastic vocabulary to tell us what you see, and just what your point is.
Steve
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Lowes' Black Friday sale brochure. Some good deals.
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"Steve B" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.infowest.com:
I agree and your choice Steve. Description is in the subject. Assume most people who buy anything and know what Thanksgiving is know what Black Friday is. IMO, PART of determining whether to click on a link is who posted it. I don't think "stranger" quite fits my profile in this NG.
Again, as always, your choice.
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fowest.com:
I was in agreement until I hit the stranger part. I don't know many stranger people. :)~
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RicodJour wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@j29g2000prf.googlegroups.com:
Stranger for lack of a better word. Guess I don't have the "fantastic vocabulary" credited for. Not sure what that was all about. Doesn't matter.
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I initially thought it was SPAM until I noticed it was you.
Then I was going to click it, but since it's for Lowe's Mexican Hardware, I decided not to.
Jon
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Please make sure to let us know how your fight for linguistic purity vs. good ol' American greed/capitalism works out for you. I can't wait for the outcome! Thanks.
Danniken - that's a good Native American name if I ever heard one. Daniken is a Swiss name. It's curious that the Swiss have managed to combine Italian, French and German and have such a high standard of living, despite the mixing of cultures and languages. What are they doing wrong? Besides the Ricola commercials, I mean.
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"Jon Danniken" wrote in news:ibhdtr$5mj$ snipped-for-privacy@speranza.aioe.org:
Sounds like you don't have much wiggle room in that area :-)
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Ya know, I used to, but the number are overwhelming this country. A few holdouts, yeah, well, people are people. Millions upon millions of people who thumb their noses at this country, while sucking the life out of social services and healthcare, are having a very real impact upon the cultural fabric of this country.
Jon
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I make no bones that the root of the problem is created by both greed and misplaced compassion.
Jon
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:50:36 -0800, "Jon Danniken" wrote Re Re: Lowes Black Friday:
Well said.
Again, well said.
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Well, up north here my jerking knee kinda sympathizes with your POV, but not enough to get my BP spiked over it. But in some parts of USA (all the way from western LA through middle CA, and parts of FL too for that matter), I'll point out that Spanish was there before English was. Not to mention ancestors of many families still living there. They never moved, the border did. And although mass media never made much note of it, their culture has been continuously practiced there far longer than the area was part of USA, even as a territory. So who is pushing out who? Cultural and genetic borders seldom line up with the lines drawn on a map. Most of the areas mentioned above that were settled in pre-Anglo days revel in the their Mexican/Spanish heritage. Northerners are not that different- even 230 years later, it is clear mainstream US culture is a product mainly of English heritage. Most of our language, most of our laws, the way our military is set up (right down to the 'noble class' officers vs. the 'commoner' enlisted ranks), the way our universities work, and so on and so on. And since we outlawed Official royalty when we kicked King George out, we created our own surrogates. (You could go back 100-some years and switch the Windsors and Kennedys, and both would have felt right at home.)
I'm the son of immigrants from far northern Europe, and although they kept speaking the mother tongue and pining for home, they didn't make us (8 kids) speak it, or participate in cultural events related to our heritage. They wanted us to assimilate, and not be 2nd or 3rd generation refugees. Of course, they never thought USSR would collapse, and their home country would regain any semblance of a free government. Boy were they surprised. My mother moved back and reclaimed the old family properties. I went to visit once, and kind of regret how cut off I am from all that. But even as a kid, I never could learn languages worth a damn, so I won't frustrate myself by trying.
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And no one has ever ever ever forged or spoofed an address or identity. Or stalked someone by posting as them............................
Gotcha.
Steve
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You go, Jon. My Dad was the son of Polish immigrants, and was beaten with a belt when heard speaking Polish. My Grandpa used to yell at him, "You American. Speak American."
Steve
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Ah, for the good old days, when whipping people was considered sport. Sheesh.
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When I was a kid, the treatment for ADD Hyperactivity was regular beatings. It didn't work, it just made me hate and despise those who were beating on me. "Sit still or I'll spank you!", "Stop crying or I'll spank you some more!" It was an endless cycle. Now, children are drugged out of their minds. Stepford Children....
TDD
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+1
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"Steve B" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.infowest.com:
That goes to say you should never click on any link provided by anyone. The poster may be spoofing and even if a description is provided a spoofer would not stop short of lying.
Be safe. Pull the plug and jam all the usb ports so no one can insert a usb drive, hammer some door shims in the cd/dvd drives.
Sure spoofing happens. Probability depends on the arena. Another "PART of determining whether to click on a link".
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Time to get a new DeWalt cordless drill!
Maybe I'll put a cord and a cigarette lighter plug on the 15+ year old
12 volt Milwaukee and keep it in the van.