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Re: tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft [message #369214 is a reply to message #369206] Thu, 21 June 2018 11:23 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Originally posted by: JimP

On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:41:40 -0400, Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com>
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> JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:54:24 GMT, usenet@only.tnx (Questor) wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:34:53 -0700 (PDT), hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>>> On Monday, June 18, 2018 at 6:44:01 AM UTC-4, Peter Flass wrote:
>>>> > You wouldn't expect unbiased info from someone who was actually there in
>>>> > the trenches. I think historians believe it takes a generation or so for
>>>> > unbiased history to be possible.
>>>>
>>>> When it comes to history, how does one identify 'bias' and separate
>>>> it out from fact?
>>>>
>>>> For instance, there remains great debate over FDR, his wife, his
>>>> handling of the Depression and the New Deal, and his handling of
>>>> WW II. Back then, many conservatives hated him, and indeed, many
>>>> hate him and his policies to this day.
>>>>
>>>> His wife was also quite controversial. NBC for a while had on
>>>> old broadcasts of Meet the Press--they had Nixon, Martin Luther
>>>> King, and Eleanor Roosevelt, among other historical figures.
>>>> Fascinating!
>>>>
>>>> ER said something I didn't like: in response to a question, she
>>>> denied being an elder statesman and denied being a politician. In
>>>> fact she was both and very much so. Even if she personally running
>>>> for office or held a policy position, she was most certainly active
>>>> behind the scenes and maintained a lot of influence in her party.
>>>>
>>>> Martin Luther King did a fantastic job in response to hostile
>>>> questioning. Several guys kept challenging him along the lines
>>>> of "don't blacks have enough now? Aren't you going too far?"
>>>> King maintained he sought equal rights, not just a few rights.
>>>>
>>>> Nixon was sad to watch. His appearance was post Watergate.
>>>> Curiously, in light of today's events, he said he wished he
>>>> could've pardoned his top aides but it would've looked bad.
>>>> He also made an excellent political analysis of the ongoing
>>>> races, and everything he predicted in the broadcast came true.
>>>> What a waste of talent.
>>>
>>> Nixon was a treasonous war criminal who illegally conspired with South
>>> Vietnamese officials to prolong the war for his political benefit in 1968,
>>> resulting in the needless death of thousands of young American men,
>>> along with the waste of billions of dollars and the loss of some standing
>>> around the world as it was revealed what a disaster Vietnam had become.
>>
>> Yeah, and Ford pardoned him to help America heal. I consider him
>> really dumb for doing that. And I do believe Noxon, and his VP, along
>> with his cabinet, are criminals.
>
> Not dumb, a traitor. Justice denied is no justice at all.

I was refering to Ford's actions.

>> I volunteered just ahead of being drafted. Some of my classmates went
>> to Viet Nam, and came home in body bags. Some came home maimed. Some
>> came home with no physical injuries.
>
> Lots of those with no physical injuries were still badly messed
> up by the experience.

I've met a few, some of my former classmates.
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