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From: John Fields on 2 Oct 2006 16:38 On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:05:11 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >John Larkin wrote: > >> Graham has a pathological and mostly irrational hatred of America, > >Not at all. I am however intruiged how Americancs invariably bring out the hate word the very second even the tiniest >criticism is voiced against them. > >It's not hate at all, more like despair at the crass stupidity of your governmemnt and the ppl who elected them. > > >> and makes up things to support that need. > >Simply no need ever to do that ! > > >> So naturally he doesn't like to >> be reminded about stuff like WWII or the Cold War. He believes that >> the UK and Russia defeated Germany with little need for US assistance. > >The USA was around 3 years late to the party of course. I have little doubt that Russia would have eventually defeated >Germany anyway. Germany could certainly never ever have defeated Russia, the numbers simply aren't even remotely >credible. --- That's all Monday morning quarterbacking but, if as you say, had Russia defeated Germany without the US being involved do you think that you'd still be speaking English as a first language? -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: lucasea on 2 Oct 2006 16:15 "Homer J Simpson" <nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message news:YEdUg.7318$N4.2499(a)clgrps12... > > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message > news:_8dUg.7772$GR.6480(a)newssvr29.news.prodigy.net... > >> Oh, come on, you know perfectly well that one anecdote (8 years old, no >> less) does not a "trait" make. However, this anecdote is useless. A >> white woman was recently (in the past month) dragged to death behind a >> pickup truck, too. By your logic, US society hates all whites and all >> women as well. > > Hispanic - by her husband. Yes, and what details were left of out the other anecdote that hide the "whole story"? Once you start to see the actual details, you can understand rather than simply label and refuse to understand. I'm not saying the other incident wasn't a case of racism, it may well have been...I'm just saying that the anecdote, as written, did not "prove" that racism is rampant in the US, as the poster appeared to intend. Eric Lucas
From: Eeyore on 2 Oct 2006 16:41 T Wake wrote: > "Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote in > > > Good to see you Nederlanders are doing so well ;-) > > I assume I have just missed the joke here. Is this going to be used in your > act? He has a thing about them. To him it's simply an insult to call someone a Netherlander. He doesn't approve of their 'liberal' thinking. Graham
From: John Fields on 2 Oct 2006 16:44 On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:15:32 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >John Larkin 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. >> > >> >Graham >> >> In other words, nothing. In Texas, people like you are called "all hat >> and no horse." > >It's none of your business. > >Unlike some who like to look the other way when a collecting tin comes round, I don't >though. --- No, you like to look in so you can remove the largest bills as it goes by. -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: Eeyore on 2 Oct 2006 16:43
John Larkin wrote: > On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:41:22 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote: > > >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. Silence was once legal under the law AIUI. I guess that's the reason for those secret prisions and extraordinary rendition..... to get round those awkward legal niceties. Graham |