From: vjp2.at on 6 Dec 2006 08:43 Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former U.S. national security adviser.. on "Political Capital with Al Hunt," to air on Bloomberg Television.. Asked whether the U.S. should have to accept the reality of the Iranians obtaining nuclear weapons, he said, "I'm not entirely convinced they are really seeking them." The Iranian leadership is "seeking a comprehensive nuclear program" that would put the country in a position to produce nuclear weapons, Brzezinski said. [jmathewson(a)bloomberg.net November 24, 2006] The World According to Jimmy Carter - by Alan Dershowitz - New York Sun - November 22, 2006 - standwithus.com It's obvious that Mr. Carter just doesn't like Israel or Israelis. He lectured Golda Meir on Israeli's "secular" nature, warning her that "Israel was punished whenever its leaders turned away from devout worship of God." He admits that he did not like Menachem Begin. He has little good to say about any Israelis -- except those few who agree with him. But he apparently got along swimmingly with the very secular Syrian mass-murderer Hafez al-Assad. [In a 1980 PBS primaries hour-long interview, George Bush said a US General (Probably Gast on 14Feb79 but maybe Huyser?) told the Shah's forces to remain in their barracks when Khomeni took over.] - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Remorse begets zeal] [Windows is for Bimbos]
From: vjp2.at on 6 Dec 2006 08:44 *+-What kind of house sells for $19,000? An outhouse? Use FSBO.com. Only you have to run a search for each state, with a max price. - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Remorse begets zeal] [Windows is for Bimbos]
From: Eeyore on 6 Dec 2006 08:55 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> >Talking of insane have you heard about the bunch of god-believers who > >> >> >think humans and dinosaurs once co-existed ? > >> >> > >> >> Sure. I even know some who think the heavens and the earth have > >> >> were created 10,000 years ago...IIRC, that's the number. > >> >> <snip> > >> >> > >> >> >There are many things I find deeply disturbing about the USA ! > >> >> > >> >> That was the problem I was working on before 9/11. > >> > > >> >Perhaps you'd like to elaborate ? > >> > >> The US religious extremists and the European socialist > >> extremists are trying to destroy knowledge and get the > >> level of knowledge back to the "good ol' days". > > > >No question about the US religious right but where do you get the ideas about > >Europe from ? I don't know of any 'socialist extremists'. And don't just say > >that's my upbringing - let's have some facts ! > > France has a policy of never "importing" language nor ideas > until approved or renamed or redone by committee. That's a miscomprehension of the facts. All manner of new language gets used in France. The Academy simply rules on 'preferred usage'. Personally, I think the idea's quite cute actually ! It's nice to see a country take some pride in its heritage. If you ask for 'le bifstek' in France they'll know what you mean ! > Unions, > by their nature, resist change that would make the work more > efficient and/or up-to-date. Not any more ! Maybe in the USA of course. I could elaborate on that considerably. European unions seem to be well aware of the need for competitiveness and the effect on jobs. > That diminishes trade drastically as time goes on. If it were true you could have a point. > >> I have been doing little tweaks to prevent that from > >> happening. I've also been doing a dump of my brain's > >> contents to document what I know and what I know has > >> already been lost. > >> > >> None of this preservation matters if extreme Islam > >> becomes the predominate governing and economic law. > > > >And how exactly is that ever going to happen ? > > Listen to you enemy. They aren't lying to you. I listen a lot and I hear many things. What I am very aware of is that ppl like yourself take the words of a few evil ppl as being representative of many. That's so fundamentally flawed that I'm sure you can see where that idea fails. > >Facts again please not political diatribe. > > I don't how to describe people who say "I intend to kill you." > as a fact because it hasn't happened yet. I'm not about > to become a martyr(sp?) just to prove to you that I'm right > and you're wrong. And who exactly is out to kill me ? Don't be shy ! I want to know. > I also keep forgetting that my personal experience is not > allowed to be given as a fact in your mind. So the above > scenario is moot. I'm rather interested in your experience since it's clearly influenced your thinking to the extent of dismissing what actually happens today and how. Graham
From: Eeyore on 6 Dec 2006 08:59 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: > > > >Ever hear of the "peace dividend"? We weren't fighting the cold war anymore. > > And you swallowed the sound byte hook, line, and sinker. That's sound bite btw. I'm amused how it's been corrupted so quickly. > The cold war didn't just stop. Well actually, yes it did. Aside from N Korea I suppose. > There will be side effects for > a hundred years. The war we're fighting now is leftovers > from WWI and WWII that were put off for later. Not really. Do elaborate if you can. Graham
From: jmfbahciv on 6 Dec 2006 08:54
In article <9857e$45761fc1$4fe7071$17377(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >Lloyd Parker wrote: <snip> >>>>You can be cash poor after buying a house though >>>>and finding all the things that urgently need doing to make it >>>>habitable. > >>>sure. But you aren't poor and all your "rent" is going into >>>your real estate pocket. I didn't buy a house until I was >>>told my rent was going up. So I went out and bought a house >>>where the monthly payments were less than my current rent. > >> I betr you saved up for a down payment though. > >It doesn't sound like she did. I simply don't remember. All I remembeer is that were a lot of checks moving back and forth over that table. :-) > It doesn't sound as though >buying a house was in her plans. It wasn't. I only bought it because the rent was cheaper. I was more interested in getting my work done. > I can say for a fact I didn't. >I got into my first house ($50K) with $1K of my own. Let's >just say that the seller and the realtor were both very >motivated. I was very used to moving every semester from being in college. I had no "settling down" genes like the rest of my family. I still don't have curtains up on the windows :-). I've just recently started "decorating" the inside of the house. /BAH |