[eDebate] Plants v. Putin

[Calum Matheson]

Nazi.


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Samuel Maurer <chairman.maurer at gmail.com>
wrote:


> well then...

>

> ...got those xylem cites???

>

>

> On 4/23/08, Calum Matheson <u.hrair at gmail.com> wrote:

> >

> >

> > I am preoccupied with topic wording research and work for the high

> school

> > team I assist, so I don't have enough time to write a lengthy response.

>  I

> > think that Russell, Rubaie, etc. have done a good job of this.  I would

> just

> > like to make a few short observations.

> >

> > 1.       Do you know what xylem is?  It is a type of transport tissue

> found

> > in vascular plants.  The most familiar example is wood.  It transports

> sap

> > by transpirational pull and root pressure.  Would you like to learn

> more?

> > Vote for agriculture.

> >

> > Do you know what the "dead hand is?"  It is an automated nuclear system

> > designed to destroy the world if Moscow is ever attacked.  It would

> launch

> > special radio communication rockets with the phrase "God created the

> Earth

> > in seven days; Russia will destroy it in an hour."  This would lock the

> > override codes in Soviet missiles, directing them to preprogrammed

> targets

> > around the world, wiping out the memory of humanity forever in a storm

> of

> > radioactive fire.  Would you like to learn more?  Vote for Russia.

> >

> > 2.       In the 1983 made for TV movie "The Day After," Russia launches

> a

> > nuclear attack on Lawrence, Kansas.  I believe that Kansas' opposition

> to

> > the Russia topic stems from an irrational fear of Russian glory inspired

> by

> > this movie.  Please disregard everything that they have written, as

> their

> > residence in Kansas also explains their love of agriculture.  Of course

> they

> > want to make us all talk about corn.

> >

> > 3.       Dozens of consecutive posts have conceded an argument from my

> April

> > 5 post "Russia—Why We Fight."   Here I claimed that no one hates Nazis

> more

> > than the Soviets did (I'm going to abandon the pretense of calling them

> > "Russians" from now on).  They hate Nazis, and you hate them.  By the

> > transitive property of equality, you love Nazis.  I would write the rest

> of

> > this post in German for you, but the heroic sacrifices of the Red Army

> > guaranteed that I never needed to learn the language.

> >

> > The Russians are coming, Soldaten.  Say hello to your Ostheer comrades

> in

> > hell.  This one's for you, Marshal Zhukov.

> >

> > Calum

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>

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> Samuel A. Maurer

> Director of Debate

> Emporia State University

>

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