From: Eeyore on 2 Oct 2006 15:08 T Wake wrote: > "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote > > On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:21:57 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >>"John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote > >>> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:06:00 +0100, Eeyore 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? It appears to be a lame attempt to justify the USA's paltry aid budget of 0.17% of GDP. Graham
From: Eeyore on 2 Oct 2006 15:11 T Wake wrote: > "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote > > On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:00:52 +0100, Eeyore wrote: > > >>There is no such thing as a coherent 'Islamic terrorist' movement, much as > >>the USA would like to have you > >>believe it. Much Islamic terrorism isn't even targeted at the West. > > > > So what? With world domonation as its goal, one would expect it > > would strike world-wide, as the opportunity arose. > > Whose goal? "It" isn't really appropriate to define the long term aims of a > disparate group of organisations. Are "they" trying to dominate the world or > destroy western society or convert every one or... It seems to me he doesn't actually know or even care much as long as there's some 'bogeyman' to have a pop at. Graham
From: T Wake on 2 Oct 2006 15:13 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:45216319.B01EB597(a)hotmail.com... > > > T Wake wrote: > >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote >> > "Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> 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. > > The self-styled 'country of the free' too ! > > >> This thread has begun to create the illusion of America being a cross >> between 1930 Germany and George Orwell's 1984. > > Illusion ?????? > Well, USENET can never be described as an accurate vision of reality. By definition we are all weirdos for posting here. I am reading this in sci.physics which has so many posts from headcases you would give up all hope if it were an accurate reflection....
From: Eeyore on 2 Oct 2006 15:13 John Fields wrote: > On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:57:00 +0100, Eeyore wrote: > >lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > > >> Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Bush is the next > >> Hitler, just that there *are* parallels between their misanthropic behavior, > >> if hugely different in degree and consequence. > > > >Very different. The outcome could be similar though. This is why the USA needs > >to be halted in its current idiotic behaviour. > > --- > And just how do you propose to do that? There's this thing called public opinion and it affects this other thing called politics. Graham
From: Eeyore on 2 Oct 2006 15:19
T Wake wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > > >> This thread has begun to create the illusion of America being a cross > >> between 1930 Germany and George Orwell's 1984. > > > > Illusion ?????? > > Well, USENET can never be described as an accurate vision of reality. By > definition we are all weirdos for posting here. I am reading this in > sci.physics which has so many posts from headcases you would give up all > hope if it were an accurate reflection.... Is Archimedes Plutonium currently resident there ? He's a nutter if ever there was one. Graham |