From: T Wake on 8 Dec 2006 12:40 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:elbsib$8qk_007(a)s848.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <4579749B.AA4F7B57(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> What are you going to do when a president abuses that power >>> by declaring an emergency which puts the country into a permanent >>> state of a dictatorship? >> >>GWB hasn't gone that far *yet* ! > > Right. Wait until next term. So you are anti-Bush now?
From: T Wake on 8 Dec 2006 12:48 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:elbl6e$8ss_003(a)s848.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <ddudnfxoXvqG1OXYRVnysQ(a)pipex.net>, > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >> >>"Lloyd Parker" <lparker(a)emory.edu> wrote in message >>news:el991p$qc5$1(a)leto.cc.emory.edu... >>> In article <el6i3f$8qk_002(a)s867.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, >>> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >><snip for brevity> >> >>>>So? That's how you do this buying your house biz if you >>>>are going to take out a loan. You can also take out a >>>>loan that includes the down payment. Is it now a sin >>>>to save for the down payment? >>>> >>>>/BAH >>> >>> No, but it means young people have to put off buying a house while they >>> do. >> >>Which maintains the circle. While the young people are trying to save, >>they >>have to pay rent. While they try to save house prices go up, rent goes and >>their savings become a lower percentage of the deposit. > > If you don't want to pay rent, then don't rent. One of my > brothers started out with a trailer. > "Let them eat cake." Where did he get the trailer from? Where did he park it? All things which are a privilege not a right. You continue to make all manner of assumptions about things _everyone_ should do to enable them to live in a [Marxist] style _you_ find acceptable. Insane. You should continue to ignore my posts.
From: T Wake on 8 Dec 2006 13:09 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:elblsn$8ss_006(a)s848.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <el9aj0$qc5$11(a)leto.cc.emory.edu>, > lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: >>In article <el91mu$8ss_002(a)s856.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, >> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>>Are you joking? Let's back up. What is the characteristic >>>the makes a country to be classified as third world? >>> >>>/BAH >> >>Originally, that it wasn't aligned with the US or USSR. > > OK. At least we have a similar definition. > >> Then it became more >>of a descriptor of the level of development, industrialization, etc. > > When did that happen? The decade will be close enough. 1970's.
From: T Wake on 8 Dec 2006 13:13 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:elbsh4$8qk_006(a)s848.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <45797454.ACC55465(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: >>> > >>> >Oh yes, we've got to deter a first-strike by India. >>> >>> It appears you haven't been keeping on who has nuclear weapons >>> and who is working on getting them in that area. >> >>It appears that you have some odd ideas about who'd even >> think about engaging in >>a first strike on the USA. > > Wake up. To start a mess does not require a first strike on the > US. An atomic war between India and Pakistan would create > enough EMF to wipe out all the electronic paper pushing that > has been contracted out to India. Blimey. When the aliens land we need to make sure we have quark-guns because they are the only thing which can get through their force fields. We need to work at preventing this mess know. I can imagine it so it must be real.
From: Eeyore on 8 Dec 2006 16:11
T Wake wrote: > "Jonathan Kirwan" <jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote in message > > <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > >><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > >>> lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: > >>> > >>>>Oh yes, we've got to deter a first-strike by India. > >>> > >>> It appears you haven't been keeping on who has nuclear weapons > >>> and who is working on getting them in that area. > >> > >>Hahaha. India and Pakistan have them. Pakistan, an "ally in the war on > >>terror" is an Islamic nation with a reasonable chance of dissidents who > >>will provide equipment or knowledge to anti-western organisations. > >>What has India got to do with it? > > > > Not just a reasonable _chance_. Pakistan _has_ already done so -- > > it's a fact, not a prospectus. > > It is a fact it has happened, which is why there is a reasonable chance it > will happen again - yet Pakistan remains a Valued Ally in the War on Terror. You mean 'Valued Ally' (tm) surely ? Graham |