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From: T Wake on 6 Oct 2006 14:16 "JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message news:n3hbi2t6cgbhv45958p3tgd8o2snitarrh(a)4ax.com... > On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 20:59:52 +0100, "T Wake" > <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us: > >> >><lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message >>news:6d%Ug.9902$e66.1245(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.com... >>> >>> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message >>> news:tOmdnf6_-qawlbnYRVnyiw(a)pipex.net... >>>> >>>> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>> news:4522F755.6FBE3BED(a)hotmail.com... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> T Wake wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote >>>>>> >>>>>> > That's not my recollection. >>>>>> >>>>>> Ok, it is my recollection though. >>>>> >>>>> Fair nuff ! >>>>> >>>>>> >> You need to stop reading too much implied criticism where there >>>>>> >> isnt >>>>>> >> any. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > There's been *loads* ! >>>>>> >>>>>> In my posts? >>>>> >>>>> A misunderstanding it seems. >>>> >>>> Possibly. The joys of the text based USENET. :-) >>> >>> Yes, let's do stick to getting offended by the *ex*plicit insults. >>> There >>> are way more than enough of those in this thread to go around. >> >>Yes. Easier to not get offended by anything here :-) >> > It's really difficult to accomplish though, as you keep returning :-] Aha, and you are forced to read my message how exactly? I am fairly sure Forte Agent has filters.
From: Michael A. Terrell on 6 Oct 2006 14:17 Jim Thompson wrote: > > No one east of Missouri knows how to drive ;-) You would have trouble driving some of the roads I was on in Alaska. If you drove like you do in the desert, you would have killed yourself in a couple days, tops. -- 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: lucasea on 6 Oct 2006 14:17 "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message news:uq5di25h88s74o4gi0du8ak3gunhpm1rth(a)4ax.com... > 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. Who really cares...the victims are still just as dead. Semantic games is all that is. Eric Lucas
From: lucasea on 6 Oct 2006 14:19 "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:45269A59.D97F35DC(a)earthlink.net... > 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. I don't have anybody wrong, I take people at their word. The assertion, which you've chosen to snip from my post, was that Muslims are raised in (I believe these were the words used) a "culture of violence". There are wackos that come from any culture, even ours, but that doesn't make it a "culture of violence". And my *empirical* evidence is directly to the contrary--it is a peaceful culture. Eric Lucas
From: John Fields on 6 Oct 2006 14:19
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:10:34 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >John Larkin wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >John Larkin wrote: >> >> lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: >> >> >> >> >>A lot of this anti-US fervor started with Democrat Presidential >> >> >>candidates trying out their sound bytes in 2002-2004 in Europe. >> >> >> >> >> >>/BAH >> >> >OH BS. It started with Bush invading another nation. >> >> >> >> Actually, it started with FDR invading another nation. France, >> >> specifically. >> > >> >You're being very very silly. >> > >> >Graham >> >> I don't think so. A couple of things are at work here. One is the >> military and cultural and technological and scientific dominance of >> the USA as compared to Europe, which is bound to cause some >> resentment. The other is expressed in the Chinese proverb, "if you >> save someone's life, they will hate you forever." > >You really are monumentally stupid. > >Maybe we could change our maps to call the USA 'stupidland' instead ? --- Sounds like fun. We'll change ours to call the UK "Untied Kookdom" -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer |