From: Eeyore on


John Fields wrote:

> The problem with you lot understanding how it works is that the only
> way the countries that you conquered ever got to rule themselves
> again was by shaming you into leaving.

Let's take India shall we ? The 'jewel in the crown'.

When do you reckon the Indian Paliament was established ?

Graham

From: Ken Smith on
In article <sq15h.3588$IR4.1362(a)newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>,
<lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
[....]
>I would argue that anybody who is still making minimum wage after any time
>at all in a job, isn't productive and doesn't deserve to be rewarded.

There are some who are working at the limit of their ability. These
people still deserve enough of a wage to live on. I have, indirectly,
employed such a person in the past. He showed up for work on time and
remained for the required time, but instructions to him needed to be made
without subordinate clauses because he could not parse them. He is never
going to get promoted into management no matter how hard he works.



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From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:
>
> >I think Theodore Roosevelt summed it up quite nicely with "Speak
> >softly and carry a big stick"
>
> The problem is that, until Bush was President, nobody believed
> that the US would use it.

Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I ??

> Now these same people think that
> they only have to wait until 2008 when a Democrat becomes president
> and the stick will only be brought out for show and never used.

It was a Democratic president who blockaded Cuba !

Graham

From: unsettled on
JoeBloe wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:53:05 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> Gave us:
>
>
>> You may not, but I expect better of my
>>president and of the leader of the free world.
>
>
>
> All of our current operations are only the start. Yes, it was
> needed, and yes it is going to continue until all of the remaining
> harbingers of hate and destruction are themselves put down.

"We've only just begun...."

From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> The complaint is valid. The message the Democrat leadership
> is sending to all the Islamic extremists is that they tacitly
> approve and won't retaliate.

You have to be joking ?

Do you *seriously* think that ?

Graham