From: Eeyore on


Jim Thompson wrote:

> N'est pas?

Your 'French' is dreadful.

Graham

From: T Wake on

<lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> "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

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:21:57 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>"John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in
>>message
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>>> 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

"John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message
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> ---
> 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

"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> 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.