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  •  Anywhere else in the world (none / 0)

    this flyer would pass as humour, albeit sick humour. In Australia this kind of stuff appears in university rags and everyone has a good laugh.

    The fact that you are all taking it so seriously is really scaring me...

    None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free - Goethe

    by limaike on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 01:39:29 AM PDT

    •  Humor? (none / 1)

      If it had been intended as humor then it might be taken as humor. This is not satire, or polical commentary, or farce. It is the ugly face of hate. I don't think that anyone is laughing.

      There is nothing natural about the abomination of modern factory farming and its attempt to reduce living, feeling beings to machines. -Stephen Walsh, Ph.D.

      by timerigger on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 05:15:59 AM PDT

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    •  That was not a joke (none / 1)

      My Glaswegian friend sends me jokey things similar to that flyer all the time.

      But the Phelps one is real. We take it seriously, because he's serious.

      This is the man who pickets the funerals of gay people, especially the ones who perished of HIV, waving signs that say "God Hates Fags" and "Burn in Hell, Homo." He picketed Matthew Shepard's funeral! So, with all due respect, learn something about the guy before dismissing this whole thread as overreaction.

      Ask Copernicus about pushing limits.

      by Xray the Enforcer on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 06:11:22 AM PDT

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    •  I laughed. (none / 0)

      What other choice do I have? My rage-o-meter is broken.

      I have decided to LAUGH at these people.
      Long and loud and clear.
      I've decided to LAUGH -
      so everybody can hear.
      The more I LAUGH --
      the more I fill with gleeeee...
      and the more the gleeeee...
      the more obvious the truth will beeee.

      (apologies to whoever wrote "I love to laugh" from Mary Poppins. It came over me. Further proof, if any was needed, that I will not be overtaking Weird Al Yankovic in the song-spoofing genre anytime soon.)

      -9.63, -7.03 Rage, rage against the Lying of the Right

      by Maryscott OConnor on Fri Dec 31, 2004 at 08:24:23 AM PDT

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