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Mediahohoho
06/15/09

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Boat drinks.
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iplaudius
06/15/09

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Do they have families with them? What if they want to start families? Can they build some semblance of a community where they are? I know that we are supposed to be looking at this as a silver lining, but these are real people with fully human needs, desires, and aspirations. There’re more to them than swimming in the ocean and catching fish.
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somethingsfishy
06/15/09

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Aren't most Uighurs from China? That would make them Muslims in a NON-Muslim country? Still not a crime, but it explains a lot.
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Pareene
06/15/09

@somethingsfishy: they were picked up in Afghanistan, where they had gone to escape the chinese government.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
06/15/09

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also, colonialism, blergh
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
06/15/09

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well since they were underprivileged anyway i am sure this is working out very well for them

/ snark

that is unbelievably sad
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BookishLookish
06/15/09

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Wow, this reminds me of a great-aunt of mine who was interned in a concentration camp during World War 2, then was in a refugee camp in Sweden for a while. She was finally settled in Puerto Rico and she would swim in the ocean every day, rain or shine.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
06/15/09

@BookishLookish: quite a tale. a friend's dad was interned in malaysia; years of hard labor. still won't talk about it
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Smitros
06/15/09

@BookishLookish:

There is something archetypal about escaping to a shore.

[Spoiler alert]

It's perhaps no accident that The Shawshank Redemption ended with a beach scene.
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BookishLookish
06/15/09

@Smitros: Symbolic and literal escape--my aunt did not get to bathe for about four years. Can you imagine what the ocean would feel like after that?
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Smitros
06/15/09

@BookishLookish:

I got nothin'.

That's beyond words.
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Foster Kamer
06/15/09

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This made me so happy. Yay Monday wonderfulness.
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Private Hangnail
06/15/09

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Looks like us Real Americans are going to have to rename ice cream 'Frosty Liberty Milk' or something.
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BadUncle
06/15/09

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Non-terrorists within an hour of the Outer Banks?? Who will protect the innocents drinking Woo Woos and turning bright pink on the beaches of Nags Head??? Crank up the flashing light, Drudge!
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noasalira
06/15/09

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As a Bermudian, I have to say -- of course they love Bermuda. We practically have to drag people off the island..
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Trulymadlyme
06/15/09

@noasalira: I actually couldn't wait to leave Bermuda. I had a work/fun trip there and couldn't get over how insanely expensive the place was and the transparent economic stratification disturbed me.

Then again, that's why I hate most tropical islands (though I know Bermuda isn't one). It's also insanely conservative, socially. Wasn't it illegal to be gay (or engage in gay PDA) there up until fairly recently?

But it's pretty as all get out. That's for sure.
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noasalira
06/15/09

@Trulymadlyme: Bermuda is far less economically stratified than the United States.

With all the dragging people off, it is good when a few leave on their own :-)
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Trulymadlyme
06/15/09

@noasalira: I was working in a Hospital and stayed in Hamilton, which might have colored my viewed a bit. Everyone I met was either insanely wealthy or struggling. There wasn't much in between. I guess it was noticeable because the island is so small!
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robotsattack
06/12/09

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God what a horrible existence. Your government persecutes you for be alive so you run away to Afghanistan, which is not much rosier, where you are rounded up by bounty hunters who want a quick dime and are then dropped into a camp where they torture out and interrogate you for nearly a decade about things you have not done and have nothing to do with. And then you risk being deported back to the country that shit on you in the first place. These poor people. Just leave them the fuck alone already!

It looks like the moronic CIA antics from "Burn After Reading" is not too far off from reality afterall. "Intelligence" my ass.
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Slovenly Muse
06/13/09

@robotsattack: And when the government that wrongly imprisoned and brutalized you for all that time finally releases you and finds you a place to live the rest of your life in peace...

... A bunch of spoiled, self-absorbed, racist shitheads are up in arms against it, because they don't want to have to look at you when they're on vacation.

This is the most literal, most offensive, most extreme application of "adding insult to injury" I've ever heard. It's obscene and disgusting.
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jasonelias
06/12/09

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That screen grab should be the Republican party's new logo.
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mmstk101
06/12/09

@jasonelias: I'm having trouble looking away . . .
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Mediahohoho
06/12/09

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Just remember: Republicans are the competent ones who believe in taking responsibility for their actions.
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milominderbinder
06/12/09

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okay idiot unless you have billions of dollars you can't retire to bermuda you have to be a citizen to live there or buy one of those super expensive mansions, they actually have pretty strict rules about it. and i like how this whole conversation was really just about themselves, where they went for vacation, what they drank, what makes them uncomfortable, etc. how about actually reporting the story?! without peppering it with racist, uncalled for, completely fabricated comments and opinions.
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allyzay
06/12/09

@milominderbinder: you do not need billions of dollars to live in bermuda just fyi
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Niko Bellic
06/12/09

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Honestly, I am too scared to click the Play button on this clip. Look at that face!
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