From: T Wake on

"Homer J Simpson" <nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message
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>>> That is a problem, but even 4 nukes would total the US medical care
>>> system. What would a couple do to Iran, say?
>>
>> Not kill a high proportion of terrorists.
>>
>> You'd also have to take out most of Africa, Europe, Latin America and
>> portions of CONUS.
>>
>> I am sure the survivors would be happy though, and if they keep the
>> species going long enough for the radiation to drop to habitable levels,
>> the planet will be sparsely populated enough to avoid wars for quite some
>> time.
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> But the oil would be fine.
>

And by then, load more of it would have fossilised out....


From: T Wake on

"Homer J Simpson" <nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> "JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
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>> You ain't real bright, are ya, boy?
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> I believe you have repeatedly proven that we are all smarter than you.
>

Garden vegetables can make that claim as well :-)


From: John Fields on
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:41:16 +0100, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

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>
>T Wake wrote:
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>> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote
>> > T Wake wrote:
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>> >> If westerners are more concerned with staying alive than having their
>> >> freedoms eventually they will convert and the conflict will end.
>> >
>> > Why would they ever convert and why do you even consider that this is what
>> > it's about ?
>>
>> Because this is the simplistic example.
>>
>> They would convert because, as the example said, they are more concerned
>> with staying alive than remaining free.
>
>You wouldn't catch me doing it. I believe in the right to practice no religion
>at all !

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They don't, so you'd be dead, silly boy.


--
John Fields
Professional Circuit Designer
From: Kurt Ullman on
In article <HPWdnXZeKd_lvLnYRVnyig(a)pipex.net>,
"T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:


> If you spent your day waving placards outside the Whitehouse saying how
> great the UK was and how all Americans should live like that the analogy
> would make more sense.

I'd still argue it. Lots of reason to stay home, not the least of which
is trying to reform your home country. That and all those extra "u"s
they throw into words for no apparent in the UK (G).
From: T Wake on

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> T Wake wrote:
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>> "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote
>> > On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:30:52 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
>> >>Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>> >>> T Wake wrote:
>> >>> > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote
>>
>> >>> >> Is Hezbollah a terrorist organisation ?
>> >>> >
>> >>> > If you are asking my opinion..... then yes. A nasty, ruthless one.
>> >>> > However sometimes terrorists seem to come in from the cold.
>> >>>
>> >>> That's the point at which they've won.
>> >>
>> >>Looks like they won in that case.
>> >
>> > ---
>> > A skirmish, perhaps, but not the war.
>>
>> Surely though, at that point the "war" is over.
>
> Would the IDF try it on again I ask myself ?
>

Probably. Not exactly a pacifistic country....