From: Eeyore on 2 Oct 2006 14:51 Jim Thompson wrote: > N'est pas? Your 'French' is dreadful. Graham
From: T Wake on 2 Oct 2006 14:51 <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:PicUg.7765$GR.4554(a)newssvr29.news.prodigy.net... > > "Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote in > message news:e1j2i294uuj1b899akl1kveug6up0csger(a)4ax.com... >> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:20:31 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" >> <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > >> thus my previous not-so-quiet comment >> that his mouth was running on government money. > > Nope. We do lots more than government work. > Even if you didn't, so what? My main income source is from government contracts, however as a free citizen I am perfectly entitled to voice my opinion. It is a sad reflection on the society which encourages people to "report" those they think are speaking out of turn. This thread has begun to create the illusion of America being a cross between 1930 Germany and George Orwell's 1984.
From: T Wake on 2 Oct 2006 14:52 "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message news:ahi2i2ddj6iqllus5956sgqdrrivqe17dd(a)4ax.com... > On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:21:57 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> >>"John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in >>message >>news:hrd2i2poggeqcjmqe03i24fclgma2p9gur(a)4ax.com... >>> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:06:00 +0100, Eeyore >>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>>> How much do you personally donate to things like this? >>>> >>>>I don't have to account for it thank you and I certainly don't have the >>>>kind of income >>>>that would allow me to donate anything like you do. We do however have a >>>>government >>>>that does it on our behalf, not to mention the likes of Oxfam etc... in >>>>the 'voluntary >>>>sector' who are normally very fast off the mark when need is high. >>> >>> In other words, nothing. In Texas, people like you are called "all hat >>> and no horse." >> >>You might want to remember that private monetary matters are just >>that--private. Just because you chose to parade yours around in public >>just >>to show how big your genitalia are, doesn't mean that anybody else is >>obligated to. I guess Texans don't have any manners as regards the >>privacy >>of private matters. >> >>Eric Lucas >> >> > > How much do you personally donate to international assistance? Funny > how "none of your business" starts with "none." I donate GB?22,000 per annum - in addition to having donated several years of my life. What does this have to do with anything?
From: T Wake on 2 Oct 2006 14:56 "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message news:qsh2i2drpinua4j4gbg6utio5ap565jm4q(a)4ax.com... > > --- > Yeah, like: "If we give you this money will you promise to use it to > feed your people and not to make weapons with it?" > --- Or "If we give you this money will you promise to use it to buy weapons and fight [Insert Disliked Government of the Day] and promise never to fight us - unless you really have to?" Can you [or anyone] remind me why the Irish Republican terrorist organisations received so much in the way of donations from concerned, caring, American private citizens? I've never been all that sure myself.
From: T Wake on 2 Oct 2006 14:56
"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:45214B1B.7A9DD9AD(a)earthlink.net... > Jim Thompson wrote: >> >> I've seen very few French tourists here in AZ... probably because >> they'd be shunned ;-) > > > The ones I've met in Florida were quite rude, and about as ignorant > as the donkey. They think we owe them a huge favor because they came > here to harass us. :( All French people are rude. That is why no one likes them. Even the French don't like themselves. |