From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> 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.

I see you're not concerned about the people then !

AFAIK neither India nor Pakistan have enough nuclear warheads to wipe out as
much as you suggest.

Graham

From: Eeyore on


Lloyd Parker wrote:

> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> > lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote:
> >> krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote:
> >>>In article <el6kid$v36$4(a)leto.cc.emory.edu>, lparker(a)emory.edu
> >>>> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> >You keep missing the legal point that FEMA cannot do anything until
> >>>> >it is asked to come in and help by the governor of the state.
> >>>>
> >>>> You right-wingers keep saying this, and it's no more true than any other
> >>>> of your mantras.
> >>>
> >>>That is correct. It is no more (or less) true of any other of our
> >>>arguments. The fact is that the feds *must* be asked for help (an
> >>>emergency declared).
> >>
> >>And the president can declare an emergency.
> >
> >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? Be very careful of what you wish for.
> >You do seem to want the Constitution to be suspended as long
> >as everyone else, but you, pays for it.
> >
> >/BAH
>
> Like The Republican Congress gave Bush the power to suspend habeas corpus?
> It's already here, but since it's a right-winger, you lap it up.

It's astonishing isn't it ?

Imagine the furore if Clinton had been the one doing it !

Graham


From: Eeyore on


John Fields wrote:

> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
> >"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >> But your BBC news reports our politicians' sound bites as news.
> >>> >> You are basing your decisions on political slickerhood.
> >>> >
> >>> >Who said I was relying exclusively on the BBC ?
> >>>
> >>> Because I've traced it.
> >>
> >> Traced what ? I read multiple sources of info indeed including the BBC but
> >> also
> >> American and Arab sources for example, even Russian sometimes ! I was just
> >> reading the Times of India in fact. You can soon weed out national bias
> >> that way.
>
> ---
> Bullshit. all you can do is read what others' opinions are and then
> decide whether they conform to what you consider the "right way" for
> the US to act to be.
>
> In the first place, you need to come to the realization that what
> you think doesn't matter and hasn't mattered since the first time
> you were overwhelmed and had to ask us for help to survive. And
> then, after the second time, surely you must realize that, in
> effect, we own you.
>
> In the case of America's being right and doing the right thing,
> however, no amount of information attesting to that being true would
> satisfy you since you've already made up your mind that we're
> unequivocally wrong, no matter which road we decide to tread.
>
> On the other side of it, I don't see where you had any problems with
> questions of ethics when you were trying to gobble up the globe and
> arrogantly declared that "The sun never sets on the British Empire".

Britain did introduce democracy to its colonies.

It's more than the USA has ever done.

Graham

From: jmfbahciv on
In article <457B34C7.6EDCC233(a)hotmail.com>,
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:
>> >> >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:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> But your BBC news reports our politicians' sound bites as news.
>> >> >> >> You are basing your decisions on political slickerhood.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >Who said I was relying exclusively on the BBC ?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Because I've traced it.
>> >> >
>> >> >Traced what ? I read multiple sources of info indeed including the BBC
but
>> >> >also
>> >> >American and Arab sources for example, even Russian sometimes ! I was
just
>> >> >reading the Times of India in fact. You can soon weed out national bias
>> >> >that way.
>> >>
>> >> I used to use that approach. But it's not as reliable anymore
>> >> because news items usually have a one-person source and every
>> >> news outlet picks it up. Your approach only works if competing
>> >> news agencies send people they employ. Nowadays, the only
>> >> spots that get covered by competing media are
>> >> the frenzy of the week.
>> >
>> >If you used the web I'd recommend Al Jazeera for an interesting
alternative
>> >source. Here's the link anyway.
>> >
>>
>http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/55ABE840-AC30-41D2-BDC9-06BBE2A36665.h
>> tm
>>
>> I read that to find out the latest propoganda. I find very little
>> news that hasn't been soaped, rinsed, repeat. Usually I use
>> it to see how news items are slanted, using the premise that
>> I might be able to get an idea of their mindset and how it's
>> stuck.
>
>And what's your conclusion.
>
>I find Al Jazeera pleasantly unbiased in fact, yet it gives an insight into
an
>Arab perspective of the news.

Anything written is biased. That's why science uses the scientific
method to produce its knowledge.

/BAH


From: jmfbahciv on
In article <op.tkayhaxz26l578(a)borek>,
Borek <m.borkowski(a)delete.chembuddy.these.com.parts> wrote:
>On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:15:25 +0100, <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:
>
>>>>> The way the Democrats tested reactions
>>>>> of the US was to go to Europe and give a speech that contained
>>>>> the ideas they wanted a reaction test. BBC would report on
>>>>> the speech. The American news media would report on what
>>>>> the BBC reported minus the fact that it came from some guy's
>>>>> speech. The politician would then watch to see how the
>>>>> voters of the US received it. What you saw a the Democrat
>>>>> platform had been vetted through Europe this way.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, considering Europeans are healthier, are happier, live longer,
>>>> are
>>>> more educated and more literate, etc., maybe we could take some
>>>> lessons.
>>>
>>> We do? Good, I am not moving anywehere.
>>
>> <grin> You detected the attitude, too.
>
>Nope. I was deadly serious ;)

You must find us terribly naive.

/BAH