Re: [tlug] Re: [CoLoCo] RESPECT MICROSOFT

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Shawn wrote:

> see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#China

I'll consider the source.  From personal experience, we ran into Chinese 
and Chinese-led units in Cambodia and Laos.  Chinese techs were known to 
have been lent to the North, but we never had a single shred of evidence 
that they crossed the 17th Parallel.  We never considered that the 
people who never went west or south were combatants.

During a business trip in about 1992, I ran into a retired PLA colonel 
in Kunming who was working for the people we were there to negotiate 
with.  It turned out that he and I not only knew of each other by the 
names the locals had given us, but that our mercenaries had squared off 
against their mercenaries more than once.  We spent the next few days 
drinking ourselves silly and boring the hell out of the people we were 
with every evening.

> Not sure I agree here.  As a young child riding the bus through the
> inner city to get downtown where the xmen comics awaited, I noticed
> something in faces and moods of people during those celebrations.
> Because it has no meaning to you, does not derive it of meaning.

Xmen comics?  The news stand at Hennepin and First was the only place in 
Minneapolis that sold Motor Cyclist, Bike, and the Guardian Weekly. 
That's why I went, anyway.

I sincerely doubt "Juneteenth" had any meaning to any of the people who 
lived in the small "inner city" when I was growing up.  Broadway and 
Olsen Highway were not exactly Watts and the only riots we ever had took 
up one block of Plymouth Avenue where the kosher butcher we used to go 
to had his windows broken (my parents were New England Protestants and 
couldn't live without a kosher market close by to bring them food from 
"home").

The "modern black experience" in Minneapolis is 99.9% made up from 
Malcom X speeches and old Prince videos.

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CL