From: jmfbahciv on 2 Feb 2007 11:55 In article <45C34318.BF53055C(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: >> >> > >> >> >> I'll talk about the fighting that happened under Truman after WWII. >> >> >> AT that time, none of the European free countries were in any >> >> >> position to wage the coming fights that were to be called the >> >> >> Cold War. Yet these same countries did not want Communism to >> >> >> spread. So the US was the only country who had enough resources >> >> >> to lead and do most of the supplying. >> >> > >> >> >It was the USA who was most concerned about communism spreading and it >> >> >wasn't happening in Europe either. >> >> >> >> Are you trying to tell me that Germany isn't in Europe either? >> > >> >Since when did communism spread into the former W. Germany ? >> >> Have you forgotten that there was also an east to Germany? > >Perfectly of course. And communism didn't 'spread' there. It is true that a Spode butter knife wasn't used. > > >> >> For the past week, I've been getting told that Russia isn't in Europe; now >> >>you want me to believe that Germany isn't. What about Poland? Is that in >> >>Asia? >> > >> >Personally I consider Russia to be a European country. >> >> It is both European and Asian. > >You got your geography right for once ! I look at maps. I suggest you do the same. > > >> > I wonder if I'll live to >> >see it either join the EU or come to some formal arrangement with it. >> >> That will depend on whether the Western style of living survives. > >It's not that fragile you know ! It is very fragile. /BAH
From: T Wake on 2 Feb 2007 12:06 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:45C36DC1.B1B9226E(a)hotmail.com... > > > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> > >> >> Pay attention to what happened in Boston yesterday; especially >> >> follow what happens after this and what the critics are saying >> >> and what these critics don't say. One thing you need to know >> >> is that the mayor of Boston is the only politician here who >> >> is taking the warnings of 9/11 seriously. >> > >> >Would you care to explain for us who don't live there >> >what it is that happened in Boston ? >> >> It's too long to explain. Magic incantations are: gorilla marketing, >> Turner Broadcasting; the Cartoon channel and some movie about >> hair (I haven't figured this one out yet); Boston temporarily >> shut down. > > Completely failing as ever to say the word bomb and hoax. > > I've heard elsewhere about this now. The police in Boston acted correctly. > I > hope whatever nitiwit thought this one up goes to jail. To be honest, I have no idea how this incident in Boston shows the Mayor there is the "only politician [there] who is taking the warnings of [11 Sep] seriously."
From: jmfbahciv on 2 Feb 2007 11:59 In article <jKudnQMLyok3y17YnZ2dnUVZ8tignZ2d(a)pipex.net>, "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >news:epvegt$8qk_021(a)s893.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >> In article <45C0A285.8367FED8(a)hotmail.com>, >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >Ken Smith wrote: >>>> >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> >Those people [Pakistanis] really like our brand of capitalism. Do >>>> >> >you >>>> >> >think they want to go back to the "old ways"? >>>> >> >>>> >> Your arument seems to have turned on it heals here. >>>> > >>>> >No doubt she momentarily forgot Pakistanis are Muslims. >>>> >>>> You are wrong. >>> >>>But earlier you said Muslims reject capitalism and the business ways of >>>the >>>west. >>> >>>Which is it ? >> >> The extremists wish to eradicate all Western living styles. > >Not all extremists share this wish. Some islamic inspired extremists are >quite happy for western living styles. Of course. However, these people are a silly as you are; they won't have that living style if they kill the Westerners who do the work. These extremists are assuming that a slave economy will provide the same goods and services for the same costs; they are also mistaken in this. > >> This >> includes capitalism. The reason is because capitalism allows >> people to make their own choices. Islam is a religion that tells >> everybody how to live their lives, in all aspects. > >Hmm. No. > >> They can't even buy >> shoes unless the shoe has been approved by the clerics (I think >> those are the people who do this work). > >Really? I can find no example of this being true. Can you support the claim >that Islam dictates what shoes people can wear? Of the three Abraham-based religions, only Christianity doesn't have rules about living styles. /BAH
From: Eeyore on 2 Feb 2007 12:07 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> >Rationing continued after the war btw. > >> > >> I know. That is another point of evidence that England couldn't > >> shake the socialist type of governing. > > > >It has zilch to do with socialism and everything to do with a shortage of > >food you nitwit. > > There wasn't a shortage after the war was done. Yes there was. > >Did you know that health actually improved during the period of rationing btw > >? > > Do those stats exclude everybody who died from bombs and bullets? > I said *health*. Do you not understand ? Graham
From: jmfbahciv on 2 Feb 2007 12:00
In article <45C343D3.2D898DB7(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: >> >> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >> >> > >> >> >We provided lots of Care Packages to "starving Europe." >> >> > >> >> That is how people got meat. >> > >> >You think the only meat in Europe came from the USA ? >> > >> >Your fantasies are getting ever wider and more nonsensical. >> >Rabbit is very tasty lean meat btw. >> >> Was everybody allowed to out and shoot A rabbit for their dinner? >> That means that you all had guns. I thought you were a gunless >> society and that hunting was exclusive to royalty? > >You don't need a gun to catch rabbit. Typical American thinking. >Some ppl do use >air rifles to do the job but it's not essential if you have dogs or a net. Some of us prefer a quick kill rather than eating meat that's been flooded with adrenalin. /BAH |