From: Eeyore on


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


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

"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


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


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