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indianablue (558 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 06:55 PM Original message |
Why doesn't the UN move from NYC? |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. And thank you for undermining the economy of NYC. |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 06:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. It would probably be a benefit to New York economically |
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Retired AF Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 07:03 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. You are |
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jwcomer (177 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 07:16 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. wrong on every point. |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 07:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. It was once American soil |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:22 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. I believe the land would revert to the Rockefellers |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:25 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. That would make sense |
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evil genius (117 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
2. no way |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
3. New York has better hookers.... |
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Taxloss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 09:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
36. Not London? |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 09:58 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. How about this? |
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Taxloss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 10:12 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. OK, you win. |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 10:18 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. But New York and London have better restaurants |
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Taxloss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 10:26 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. You're right. |
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peacetalksforall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. It's no longer a requirement for the UN to be where a good number of |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
8. If the UN sells the NY real estate back to the USA, maybe |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 07:26 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Maybe we could put the UN in a hollowed-out volcano somewhere |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 07:49 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Didn't Onasis have an Island in the Mediterranean? |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:22 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Why would anyone invade the UN? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:32 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. No one rational would, however, |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:36 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. 17 major peacekeeping operations = debating society? |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:43 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Okay...okay... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:46 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. So don't you think they should be located somewhere |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:56 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Since when is the UN neutral? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 09:06 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Well, we didn't have the same government then. |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 09:20 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. Right...we had Nixon and Reagan.... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 09:26 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. That wasn't their job back then. It seems that it's only in the past |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 09:46 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Oh my...so much bad history...so little time... |
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Retired AF Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-04 05:02 AM Response to Reply #38 |
48. Pro-Soviet governments? |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:50 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. A fundamental misunderstanding is to call it a debating society. |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:58 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. That's essentially what it is |
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Kathy in Cambridge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:38 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. You're funny |
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Maple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
11. The UN has a standing invitation |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 07:47 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Not to mention bilingual in the UN's two primary languages |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:41 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. New York is very welcoming, sophisticated, and cosmopolitan. |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
12. Let's Give The Wingnuts Another Victory |
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morgan2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
13. it would make a lot of sense to move the un just outside of manhattan |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:23 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. It always comes back to the parking |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:49 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Las Vegas won't be around forever. |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 08:59 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. But oh to be there when the whole shithouse goes up |
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catbert836 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
33. Because it's the world's capital |
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drdtroit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
34. The UN will never leave NYC because |
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ashiebr (198 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-04 12:51 PM Response to Reply #34 |
50. Well, Doc...... |
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newyorican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
39. The UN in NYC is just a figurehead... |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
41. considering the diversity of NYC |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
45. If the UN moves anywhere.... |
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ldf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
46. since the good 'ol us of a |
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jmatthan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-04 11:27 PM Response to Original message |
47. My conversation with Kofi Annan in 1997 |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-04 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
49. NYC is still a nice place, just in a putrid excuse for a country. |
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