01-15-2007, 06:53 AM
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Gooserider wrote:
> "Tom Keats" <tkeats2005@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news lreoe.57e.ln@bud.garden.local...
>> In article <45aae71f.31804750@news.supernews.com>,
>> mister1900mister@hotmail.com (Random Waftings Of Bunker Blasts) writes:
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>>> I wonder what the assailants' Free Republic handles were.
>> Sounds to me like a case of punk-ettes looking for
>> peurile, bullying kicks, beligerently blocking a bike
>> lane, and waiting for the next victimizable cyclist(s)
>> to come along, to pick-on.
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>> It's old hat stuff. Except cases of inter-female
>> bullying are now being more publicized.
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>> cheers,
>> Tom
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> Well, except for the racial aspect. If three white teenagers beat two black
> cyclists while spouting racial slurs, this would be the lead story on every
> networks' newscast, and the assailants' photos would be splashed on every
> newspaper and magazine in the country. But the victims were white so this
> story will remain a local one, and a minor local one at that.
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You've noticed that aspect? I am now a minority in California, being
white, yet discriminated against because of it. Affirmative action just
means that my job will be given to a less qualified person 'of some
color'. It has gotten out of hand.
Bill Baka
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