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From: lucasea on 2 Oct 2006 15:45 "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message news:hJqdncTbXv4vw7zYRVnyrQ(a)pipex.net... > > "Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote in > message news:cdg2i2d2f8fo15gn34hn1ajoplsrj5eu46(a)4ax.com... > >> What is your street address? I have some buddies at Ohio State that >> are just drooling for the chance to "meet" you ;-) > > You are funny guy. Do you really have buddies or are they just made up to > try and make you look good? I have to say most people I've known associated with OSU over the past 25 years are very hard-working, pretty much mind their own business, and don't go around threatening to beat somebody up just because they disagree on politics...in a word, mature. (Well, OK, there was that couch incident, but it was MICHIGAN, after all. Oh, and what I say doesn't apply to Maurice Clarett, either--he's an idiot.) Eric Lucas
From: Jim Thompson on 2 Oct 2006 16:01 On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:45:32 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >"T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message >news:hJqdncTbXv4vw7zYRVnyrQ(a)pipex.net... >> >> "Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote in >> message news:cdg2i2d2f8fo15gn34hn1ajoplsrj5eu46(a)4ax.com... >> >>> What is your street address? I have some buddies at Ohio State that >>> are just drooling for the chance to "meet" you ;-) >> >> You are funny guy. Do you really have buddies or are they just made up to >> try and make you look good? > >I have to say most people I've known associated with OSU over the past 25 >years are very hard-working, pretty much mind their own business, and don't >go around threatening to beat somebody up just because they disagree on >politics...in a word, mature. (Well, OK, there was that couch incident, but >it was MICHIGAN, after all. Oh, and what I say doesn't apply to Maurice >Clarett, either--he's an idiot.) > >Eric Lucas > You missed my "meat" pun ?:-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
From: John Larkin on 2 Oct 2006 16:05 On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:41:22 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:30:59 -0700, John Larkin ><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >>On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:16:54 -0700, Jim Thompson >><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >> >[snip] >>> >>>Yep. However I wouldn't hang my hat on anything CAIR has to offer. >>>Around here they spout all kinds of hate, refuse to say anything >>>negative about extremism, nor be interviewed by the media. >>> >>>My feeling is that if American Muslims can't/won't be outspoken >>>against their extremist brothers, in an out-and-out world blow-up >>>they'll be rounded up into camps just like the Japanese-Americans in >>>WWII... deservedly... "silence implies consent" (Sir Thomas More). >> >>The only people who should be "rounded up" are people who commit >>crimes. >> >>John > >There are some provisions in my statement. Since most (if not all) >Muslims won't criticize Jihad, in a war we will have to presume that >all Muslims are closet Islamic terrorists. If you catch them planting bombs, yes. > >I repeat, "silence implies consent". > Of course it doesn't, but "consent" remains legal anyhow. There are millions of Muslims in this country, citizens and legal residents, and their rate of participation in terrorism is within the engineering definition of zero. John
From: Jim Thompson on 2 Oct 2006 16:10 On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:05:08 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:41:22 -0700, Jim Thompson ><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: > >>On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:30:59 -0700, John Larkin >><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >> >>>On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:16:54 -0700, Jim Thompson >>><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >>> >>[snip] >>>> >>>>Yep. However I wouldn't hang my hat on anything CAIR has to offer. >>>>Around here they spout all kinds of hate, refuse to say anything >>>>negative about extremism, nor be interviewed by the media. >>>> >>>>My feeling is that if American Muslims can't/won't be outspoken >>>>against their extremist brothers, in an out-and-out world blow-up >>>>they'll be rounded up into camps just like the Japanese-Americans in >>>>WWII... deservedly... "silence implies consent" (Sir Thomas More). >>> >>>The only people who should be "rounded up" are people who commit >>>crimes. >>> >>>John >> >>There are some provisions in my statement. Since most (if not all) >>Muslims won't criticize Jihad, in a war we will have to presume that >>all Muslims are closet Islamic terrorists. > >If you catch them planting bombs, yes. > >> >>I repeat, "silence implies consent". >> > >Of course it doesn't, but "consent" remains legal anyhow. > >There are millions of Muslims in this country, citizens and legal >residents, and their rate of participation in terrorism is within the >engineering definition of zero. > >John I find it very troubling that CAIR and other Muslim organizations go out of their way to sidestep questioning whether they favor the behavior of Islamic terrorists or not. "silence implies consent" is INDEED a provision of LAW, but I think it applies here as well... particularly given the sidestepping :-( ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
From: John Larkin on 2 Oct 2006 16:14
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:08:55 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > 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 > I'm just curious about what people actually do about things they profess to believe in. Like the fatness thing. John |