From: jmfbahciv on
In article <MPG.1f8ef2658cd2dcf4989d8d(a)News.Individual.NET>,
Keith <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote:
>In article <eg335h$5l0$10(a)leto.cc.emory.edu>, lparker(a)emory.edu
>says...
>> In article <eg2od9$8qk_004(a)s829.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
>> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>> >In article <VAVUg.13310$7I1.3298(a)newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>,
>> > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> >>news:452415BE.DB0DBC1E(a)hotmail.com...
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Keith wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says...
>> >>>>
>> >>>> > And you think you can defeat 'radical Islam' with bombs and bullets
?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I know there is no choice. Perhaps you want to submit?
>> >>>
>> >>> There is no need to 'submit'
>> >>>
>> >>> You're living in a perversely stupid fantasy paranoid world.
>> >>
>> >>It comes from the constant bombardment by Bush's fear-mongering--it's his
>> >>way of keeping power over people.
>> >
>> >I think you should start to listen to Bush instead of listening
>> >to other people supposedly repeating what Bush said. I would
>> >suggest you start with his January, 2006 TV speech.
>> >
>> >> People start to lose perspective on what
>> >>is happening and why. It really is a very powerful narcotic.
>> >
>> >People can also lose perspective if they assume that Bush
>> >is always wrong
>>
>> So what has he been right about?
>>
>> >and is the cause of all ills which is the
>> >only thing you hear from his political opposition.
>> >
>> >This causes a lot of people to overlook the fact that these
>> >same politicians do not intend to deal with the threat
>> >to the nation.
>> >
>>
>> Bush has increased the threat. His own NIE says so.
>
>You're in a fantasy land. ONE SENTENCE of the NIE report was
>leaked by the Democrats to try to discredit Bush. The four pages
>around that one sentence, later released, say exactly the opposite.
>Please get your "news" from someone other than Franken.
>
Thanks. I did not know this.

/BAH
From: Eeyore on


Robert Latest wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:58:29 -0700,
> John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote
> in Msg. <gchai2ligb29uejo28rjrpi78fkdonglhp(a)4ax.com>
>
> > But I consider trerrorism to be attacking non-combattant populations
> > for political/emotional/morale reasons, which both sides did in WWII
> > and I don't think the US is doing deliberately at present.
>
> At present, no. Deliberately, no. It is in fact difficult to make out
> what the US are doing at present, and why they insist on doing it.
> That's what causes a great deal of the alienation the US are
> experiencing at the moment. The uproar about slippery email exchanges
> between a politican and teenagers isn't helping the US to get into a
> situation where they can be taken serious, either. In any normal country
> the guy would simply be kicked out of office, tars and feathers and all
> and be done with it.
>
> > The Cold War certainly helped hold western Europe together, and
> > supressed the latent anti-Americanism until the Soviet empire
> > collapsed and the Europeans felt they didn't need us any more.
>
> I really don't know where you see all that anti-Americansim. The
> dominant sentiment among Europeans (including myself) is a huge
> disappointment with what America has grown into recently. For much of
> the world, especially Europe, America used to be the very definition of
> freedom - not the least because it saved Western Europe not so much from
> Hitler as from Soviet domination. Now we have to witness how that great
> country is being run down by a bunch of religious goons and their
> industry buddies. The feeling is more like grief, not hate.

I agree.

However the kind of response I get to really quite mild criticism does tend
to make me wonder what the heck American's come to.

Graham

From: John Fields on
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:46:14 +0100, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>Homer J Simpson wrote:
>
>> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message
>>
>> >> I'm saying that if someone threatens their fundamental freedoms, the
>> >> British public will defend them.
>> >
>> > Hopefully.
>> >
>> > I grow less and less sure of this as I watch public debate each day.
>>
>> A mistake Hitler made. He read reports of pacifist debates in the UK and
>> assumed they were a guide to the lack of response to be expected during an
>> attack on Britain.
>>
>> The British Air Force response showed him the error of his ways.
>
>The Royal Air Force to be entirely accurate but yes, we were certainly far
>from unready. In fact Britain's armaments industry had been working hard in
>the years preceding WW2 to make the planes ( and other stuff ) we knew we
>were going to need.

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From: YD on
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:00:39 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
>> YD wrote:
>>>
>>> Positively so. All you have left is posing as powerful know-it-alls on
>>> the internet.
>
>You're going to have to stop trimming so much, so we can tell which group of
>powerful know-it-alls you're talking about. Sometimes it's really hard to
>tell the players without a scorecard.
>
>Eric Lucas
>

Don't blame me, it was already trimmed.

- YD.
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From: John Fields on
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 23:48:28 +0100, "T Wake"
<usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:

>
>"John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message
>news:ckd8i2d471ak7j75nlcnugpbk8j5th89v6(a)4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:06:05 +0100, Eeyore
>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>John Fields wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:24:11 +0100, Eeyore
>>>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >Ever wondered why it [international terrorism] happens to the USA
>>>> most btw ?
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Nope. Losers want to blame everyone but themselves for their
>>>> predicaments and, so, take shots at the champ in an attemp to try to
>>>> convince themselves that they're not impotent.
>>>
>>>Let me explain then.
>>>
>>>It becasue America pokes its nose into stuff that's none of its business
>>>all the time and just generally likes to kick the little guys around.
>>
>> ---
>> Translation:
>>
>> Because America has the wherewithal and the will to do whatever it
>> wants to, and all the little guys resent that.
>>
>
>Do Americans have a word for Bullying?
>

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Yes, "bullying."


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