From: Michael A. Terrell on 6 Oct 2006 14:03 lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > > Again, evidence to justify this assumption? All the Muslims I know are very > much peace-loving people. Certainly much more so than any of the "kill 'em > all" Americans I see on this group. You've got us all wrong, dingbat. I don't care about people who behave themselves but if they want a fight, their life is going to be at risk. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
From: John Fields on 6 Oct 2006 14:01 On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 22:50:02 +0100, "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > >"John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message >news:qkrai2hvpp43t4lpu1ttca9tpq8ueb94qr(a)4ax.com... >> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:03:17 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >>>Which one would that be, the dangers of driving on the nation's highways? >>>That's at least 3 orders of magnitude greater of a real threat to every >>>person in the country than is terrorism. >> >> 3000 people died at the WTC. Three orders of magnitude from that is 3 >> million. We kill about 40K people a year in car accidents. >> > >3000 people (not all of whom were US citizens) have been killed by Islamic >terrorist attacks on the Mainland US in (shall we say 80 years). How many >have died in car accidents in that time? > >That said, you are nitpicking in the same manner. More than ten times as >many people die every year as died as a result of the 11 Sep 01 attack. That >is TEN attacks of that scale (and that was a large scale attack by anyone's >standards) every single year. Year in, year out and accepted as a normal >risk in life. > >Amazing really. --- I really don't think that's fair. In the case of 9/11, a premeditated series of events was set into play which killed thousands of people, never mind the monetary loss. In the case of traffic deaths, those are accidents. They result in lives lost numbering in the tens of thousands annually, but they're still "just" accidents. -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: Michael A. Terrell on 6 Oct 2006 14:05 T Wake wrote: > > I can think about space aliens invading and making everyone die their hair > red. Doesn't mean it is going to happen. > > You can deal with things you _think_ will happen or deal with things which > are happening. > > I know which makes more sense to me. Die their hair red? When hair dies, its white, or light gray. You need a new foil beanie, you're obsessing about malevolent aliens again. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
From: Lloyd Parker on 6 Oct 2006 09:30 In article <kurtullman-C56BCA.11171106102006(a)customer-201-125-217-207.uninet.net.mx>, Kurt Ullman <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >In article <n3mci2p9ah579tq4d38b7emv85ksafipu1(a)4ax.com>, > John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: > > >> >What do you think about the Vincennes shooting down an Iranian Airbus then ? >> >> --- >> From: >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_4678000/4678707 >> .stm >> >> "The USS Vincennes had tracked the plane electronically and warned >> it to keep away. When it did not the ship fired two surface-to-air >> missiles, at least one of which hit the airliner." >> >> I think the airplane's pilot should have had the good sense to heed >> the Vincennes' warning. > > It is sorta the height of moral equivalancy to suggest that an >accident that we attempted to avoid by warning the plane is anywhere >near the same as anything else being discussed. Further, there is no indication the pilot (1) was monitoring the frequency used or (2) knew they were referring to his aircraft, as it was in a standard commercial travel lane.
From: Lloyd Parker on 6 Oct 2006 09:08
In article <sgrci2h5g54ecokggeogqs8kjtqucn7vv5(a)4ax.com>, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:13:13 +0000 (UTC), kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken >Smith) wrote: > >>In article <45254611.542B0FC1(a)hotmail.com>, >>Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>Ken Smith wrote: >>> >>[...] >>>> >Sounds like the sign of the liar to me ;-) >>>> >>>> On (2) we have external evidence that he did try to get OBL. It was all >>>> over the news and the Neocons yelled "wag the dog" about it. >>> >>>The neo-cons are terminally clueless. >> >>No, they aren't. Many of them are quite well educated and on other >>subjects can think through problems very well. They are more like a PC >>that has a virus installed. The program for thinking about politics is no >>longer able to care through logical thought. >> > >But Democrats ARE dirtbags. Try and deny that ;-) When did you stop beating your wife? > > ...Jim Thompson |