From: T Wake on

"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Kurt Ullman wrote:
>>
>> Or "If its tourist season why can't I shoot 'em?" Bumpersticker
>
>
> I want to put a sign at the Florida state border that says, "Leave
> your wallets, and go home!" ;-)
>

Interestingly, I go to Florida on holiday almost every year and it feels
like I _have_ just left my wallet (along with my PIN and all my credit cards
and overdraft details) by the time I leave.


From: T Wake on

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> T Wake wrote:
>
>> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote
>> > T Wake wrote:
>>
>> >> If they did all this on their own, then may be we should be worried.
>> >
>> > I think that's exactly the point.
>>
>> You think we should be very worried?
>
> Yes and no. I don't think there's a huge actual threat but we should be
> concerned about the alienation of young Muslims ( and how and why of
> course ).

No, I dont agree.

If you are saying the London bombers were acting alone without any
organisation and they are simply an example of five people going off the
rails then we dont need to worry about the alienation of young muslims. We
need to detain them all.

Alienation (in this context) happens to communities who feel disassociated
with the mainstream society.

You are saying these five fools were just five boys who decided to do
something horrible. Not an alienation issue.

If on the other hand, as I suspect, they are part of a large community who
feel they are "outside" the norms of behaviour in our society then, yes, we
do need to do something. (And we can do something).

>> Me personally, I think they are no different (if slightly more suicidal)
>> than the idiots who were IRA bombers in the seventies. Slightly less
>> scary
>> though.
>
> The IRA made bigger bombs.

Only sometimes. The IRA were big fans of mortars and proxy bombs (not
totally different to suicide bombers). (Along with kneecapping, bank
robbing, prostitution rings, drug rings, punishment beatings when people
wouldn't pay etc... Terrorists just aren't nice people).


From: T Wake on

"John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:17:08 +0100, Eeyore
> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>John Fields wrote:
>>
>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> >T Wake wrote:
>>> >> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote
>>> >> > T Wake wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> >> If westerners are more concerned with staying alive than having
>>> >> >> their
>>> >> >> freedoms eventually they will convert and the conflict will end.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Why would they ever convert and why do you even consider that this
>>> >> > is what
>>> >> > it's about ?
>>> >>
>>> >> Because this is the simplistic example.
>>> >>
>>> >> They would convert because, as the example said, they are more
>>> >> concerned
>>> >> with staying alive than remaining free.
>>> >
>>> >You wouldn't catch me doing it. I believe in the right to practice no
>>> >religion
>>> >at all !
>>>
>>> ---
>>> They don't, so you'd be dead, silly boy.
>>
>>Since it's not going to happen it's hypothetical.
>
> ---
> So what? This entire argument is hypothetical, so if you buy the
> premise you buy the bit.
>
> If you dislike being in hypothetical space why do you even bother to
> show your ugly faces?
>

Why the plural?


From: T Wake on

"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:22:17 -0400, Keith <krw(a)att.bizzzz> Gave us:
>
>>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.
>
> Good one.

Sycophant.


From: T Wake on

<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
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> In article <45253CB2.A36CCD05(a)hotmail.com>,
> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >You can't accept that Islam isn't a threat to your lifestyle ?
>>>
>>> Not only is it a threat, but it has already begun to
>>> alter my lifestyle. My goal is to ensure that it
>>> alter 100% of my lifestyle, if I'm allowed to exist.
>>
>>Tell me more about this threat you perceive.
>>
>>What exactly is it that you're afraid of ?
>
> Loss of enough knowledge of how to do things that it will
> take another 1000 years to reinvent the wheel.

Then we need to have a War on Faith Schools in the west. We can add a War
against the Arts and Humanities departments as well.