From: Ken Smith on
In article <cezUg.49724$E67.32128(a)clgrps13>,
Homer J Simpson <nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
[....]
>You may care for individual lemmings, but when you see them all charging
>over the cliff en masse . . . .
>
>(And yes, I know they don't really do that).

There is lack of strong leadership among lemmings. Humans will follow the
order to get in the handbasket and set it in motion.


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From: Keith on
In article <stv5i215k0cisbp9l0oj762qb0t296qm32(a)4ax.com>, To-Email-
Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com says...
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:39:04 -0700, John Larkin
> <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:13:11 -0700, John Larkin
> ><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:25:32 +0100, Eeyore
> >><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>Bunch of damn cowboys.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Yaaa-hoo!
> >>
> >>John
> >
> >Which reminds me that it's time to mosey on home and watch the next
> >episode of "Deadwood"
> >
> >John
>
> I'll get out my copy of "Tombstone" ;-)

Meanwhile, the stuffed donkey will watch the documentary about the
wild west, "Blazing Saddles".

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From: Keith on
In article <efugkv$4up$3(a)leto.cc.emory.edu>, lparker(a)emory.edu
says...
> In article <nrc5i2tq8jr4k99aqofmbbesm7em13ktok(a)4ax.com>,
> John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> >On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:28:11 GMT, "Homer J Simpson"
> ><nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>"Lloyd Parker" <lparker(a)emory.edu> wrote in message
> >>news:eftptn$c8p$2(a)leto.cc.emory.edu...
> >>
> >>> Tell me how many times the Bill of Rights says "people" and how many times
> >>> it
> >>> says "citizens."
> >>
> >>SCOTUS has said that even visitors have the rights of citizens when it come
> >>to legal processes. After all, you expect their homeland laws to apply in
> >>the US would you?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Correct. But they also realize that the rights apply only when those
> >people are physically in the USA. Which is why some bad guys are held
> >elsewhere.
> >
> >John
> >
> >
> Well, Bush thought Gitmo qualified as "elsewhere" but the USSC said no. Then
> he held people in Europe, which is raising a stink there. It might keep some
> prospective EU members out even.

Actually, no it didn't. It said only that Congress had some say in
the matter.

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From: Ken Smith on
In article <_YxUg.45778$bf5.41411(a)edtnps90>,
Homer J Simpson <nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
>
><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
>news:eft9s4$8ss_002(a)s888.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com...
>
>> You are excoriating Bush for doing one of his primary jobs which
>> is national security. I suppose you long for the days of the
>> Clintons where the goal was to breakdown all national security.
>
>Clinton was successful.
>
>Bush is a failure.

Unless you assume some really bad things about his motives that is.




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From: Keith on
In article <efvurj$8ss_006(a)s811.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says...
> In article <eftq1i$c8p$3(a)leto.cc.emory.edu>,
> lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote:
> >In article <p1iUg.9199$e66.6609(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
> > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >>news:452198F0.A71D16AC(a)hotmail.com...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> John Fields wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> You miss no opportunity to lambaste the US, its population, its
> >>>> government, its institutions, and you hate its very existence, so
> >>>> what do you expect me to think, that you're a benevolent soul trying
> >>>> to help with constructive criticism?
> >>>
> >>> I thought it was fine under Clinton !
> >>
> >>Yes, but you see, if he denigrates your point of view by labelling you as
> >>someone that could never say anything good about the US, then he doesn't
> >>have to take your point of view seriously and try to understand that perhaps
> >>it might even be a valid point of view, that an intelligent person may be
> >>capable of coming to through independent thought. It's the same thing the
> >>Bush administration does by labelling everyone that disagrees with it a
> >>"traitor" (under the *extremely* liberal interpretations that disagreeing
> >>with your government is tantamount to aiding the enemy.) What they seem to
> >>fail to understand is that the Constitution gives every US citizen is given
> >>the *responsibility* to question its government *every single* day of their
> >>lives. It really is sad that the Bush administration has seen fit to
> >>legitimize this sort of anti-American behavior.
> >>
> >>Eric Lucas
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Keith Olbermann had a good commentary a week or two ago about Bush calling a
> >criticism "unacceptable."
>
> Which criticism was unacceptable?
>
> I don't understand you people; first you complain that he can't
> think for himself; then, you object when he expresses his opinion about
> something.
>
> You can't have it both ways.

Eeyore (a.k.a. the stuffed donkey) can. He's a two-faced Europeon.

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