From: Eeyore on 10 Dec 2006 18:47 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 10 Dec 2006 19:29 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 10 Dec 2006 19:59 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 10 Dec 2006 21:12 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 10 Dec 2006 21:45
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 |