From: Eeyore on


T Wake wrote:

> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > 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.
>
> The British Empire was pretty much over by the time I was born. What on
> Earth does it have to do with anything today?
>
> It amuses me how people try to play the history card when it suits them, but
> when the inevitable counter examples from history are shown they whine about
> it no longer being relevant.
>
> Asking why people alive today didn't have any problems of ethics when the
> Victorians were carving up the globe in the name of Empire is ludicrous. It
> is as comical as asking Americans why they oppressed the Native American
> tribes.

Fields will probably deny that American Indians were slaughtered and oppressed.

Anything the British Empire did in comparison was small beer.

Graham


From: JoeBloe on
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:53:27 +0000, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us:

>
>
>T Wake wrote:
>
>> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
>> > 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.
>
>You do know that the USMC has a 'space division' ???
>


Ever heard of GPS? Ever wonder where the world would be without it?
That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Of course there are space operations, dolt.
From: Eeyore on


JoeBloe wrote:

> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us:
> >T Wake wrote:
> >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
> >>
> >> > 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.
> >
> >You do know that the USMC has a 'space division' ???
>
> Ever heard of GPS?

Ever heard of Glonass ?

Ever heard of Galileo ?

I thought not.

> Ever wonder where the world would be without it?

The reason Europe's doing Galileo is of course because the USA can't be trusted.


> That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Nope.

Graham

From: JoeBloe on
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:59:24 +0000, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us:

>The reason Europe's doing Galileo is of course because the USA can't be trusted.


Your knowledge of the world is such a hideous joke.
From: Eeyore on


JoeBloe wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:59:24 +0000, Eeyore
> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us:
>
> >The reason Europe's doing Galileo is of course because the USA can't be trusted.
>
> Your knowledge of the world is such a hideous joke.

" With Galileo, the European Union (EU) intends to achieve independence from the
USA's GPS (Global Positioning System) and the Russian Federation's Global Navigation
Satellite System GLONASS. Whilst Galileo, as a joint project undertaken by the EU and
the European Space Agency ESA, is compatible and interoperable with GPS, it
guarantees independent and reliable usability. "

http://www.bmvbs.de/en/Transport/Integrated-transport-policy-,2069/Galileo.htm

*independent* and *reliable*

Graham