From: Michael A. Terrell on
Jim Thompson wrote:
>
> That's where we pretend we like the French ;-)


Sorry, Jim, but I'm not THAT good at playing pretend.


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From: John Larkin on
On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:23:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:46:21 -0700, John Larkin
><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:14:02 GMT, "Homer J Simpson"
>><nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Gordon" <gordonlr(a)DELETEswbell.net> wrote in message
>>>news:00c0i29vn31ejl71pku1d0r1nfaevj6p4i(a)4ax.com...
>>>
>>>>>So you are saying they are NOT better Xtians than everyone else?
>>>>>
>>>> No, I'm saying that this war on terrorism started long before
>>>> President Bush and the present Republican administration was
>>>> involved in any way.
>>>
>>>But it isn't a war. It is a problem for a police force that requires
>>>international cooperation, something the US is notoriously unable or
>>>unwilling to be involved in.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I don't understand those words, "international cooperation." Where
>>might that be found?
>>
>>John
>>
>>
>
>That's where we pretend we like the French ;-)
>
> ...Jim Thompson

And the French pretend to have principles.

John

From: Homer J Simpson on

"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
news:9c11i2dvshqagolpbfneulpfegh53tpgiv(a)4ax.com...

>>I seem to recall references to "Shock and Awe". Doesn't sound like the
>>cops
>>to me - unless it's the nutjob US cops who shoot everything in sight.

> Very select things actually.

Police shoot at unarmed man 41 times

An investigation has been launched into why four New York police officers
fired 41 shots at an unarmed man with no criminal record.
Amadou "Ahmed" Diallo, 22, died after he was hit at least 19 times as he
entered his Bronx apartment building. The bullets pierced him in every major
organ including his heart, lungs and liver.
"It looks like one guy may have panicked and the rest followed suit," a
police official told The New York Times on Friday.
Friends said Mr Diallo emigrated from Guinea-Bissau after fleeing civil
strife in Mauritania in 1997. He worked 12 hours a day as a peddler, sending
much of his earnings back to his parents.
As he returned home on Thursday, four undercover police officers
investigating a recent shooting of a cab driver approached him and
identified themselves.
Police sources said Mr Diallo reached into his pocket and the officers, who
are all white, thought he was going for a gun.
Mr Diallo died at the scene. A beeper and wallet were all that were found
beside his bullet-riddled body.
"The police told me it was a mistake," Mr Diallo's roommate, Momodou Kujabi,
told the press.
The officers, three of whom have shot civilians in the past, were all police
veterans with five years or more on the force.



From: mmeron on
In article <mp21i21chac872jar6dn38qfustbeb5eug(a)4ax.com>, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> writes:
>On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:23:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:46:21 -0700, John Larkin
>><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:14:02 GMT, "Homer J Simpson"
>>><nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Gordon" <gordonlr(a)DELETEswbell.net> wrote in message
>>>>news:00c0i29vn31ejl71pku1d0r1nfaevj6p4i(a)4ax.com...
>>>>
>>>>>>So you are saying they are NOT better Xtians than everyone else?
>>>>>>
>>>>> No, I'm saying that this war on terrorism started long before
>>>>> President Bush and the present Republican administration was
>>>>> involved in any way.
>>>>
>>>>But it isn't a war. It is a problem for a police force that requires
>>>>international cooperation, something the US is notoriously unable or
>>>>unwilling to be involved in.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>I don't understand those words, "international cooperation." Where
>>>might that be found?
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>>
>>
>>That's where we pretend we like the French ;-)
>>
>> ...Jim Thompson
>
>And the French pretend to have principles.
>
Well, here is at least one thing you can say for Al Queda. They are
quite honest, no pretending.

Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool,
meron(a)cars.uchicago.edu | chances are he is doing just the same"
From: Homer J Simpson on

<mmeron(a)cars3.uchicago.edu> wrote in message
news:fk1Ug.15$45.91(a)news.uchicago.edu...

> Now, you can find enough stuff published by Al Queda to find what
> their real grievance is. Though, of course, oblivion is so much more
> pleasant.

Is it true that the word for virgin in Arabic is very similar to the word
for raisin? If these nutjobs wind up with just a saucer of dried grapes in
the afterlife I suspect they'll want to know who they have to kill to get
back here.