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From: Eeyore on 21 Oct 2006 10:45 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: > >> > >> >They gave their 95% confidence interval. > >> > >> The news said that the questions that were asked was if > >> anybody knew anybody who died. Adding these up will not > >> give a correct count. > > > >The 'news' was wrong then. > > > >In most cases ( ~90 % ) a death certificate was shown. > > And the death certificates said that all the deaths were > due to US killing them? Not at all. The survey was to determine death rates from all causes pre and post war. Quite simple really. Pre-war of course there weren't any deaths from either US killings or any insurgents. Graham
From: Eeyore on 21 Oct 2006 10:45 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > You are wrong. NO. You are. Graham
From: Eeyore on 21 Oct 2006 10:46 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > What is really frustrating about these people is that > they don't have to know any history. I reckon in any competition, my knowledge of history would knock yours into the proverbial cocked hat. Graham
From: Eeyore on 21 Oct 2006 10:48 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > >> Yes. The history we (US kids) learned in elementary school seems > >> to have been a lot of myth. What a waste of learning time. > > > >Now stop to think what else might be based on popular myths ? > > One of them is that Europe doesn't teach history their kids any > better than the US. Eh ? I assume English isn't your first language. Graham
From: T Wake on 21 Oct 2006 10:46
<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:ehd5mb$8qk_008(a)s884.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <57udnU2j2uYdBqrYnZ2dnUVZ8qGdnZ2d(a)pipex.net>, > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >> >><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>news:eh7ksa$8ss_018(a)s977.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >>> In article <bFtZg.15970$e66.4970(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>, >>> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>>> >>>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>>>news:eh53ce$8qk_005(a)s847.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >>>>> In article <OF7Zg.17270$6S3.4818(a)newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>, >>>>> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>>>>>news:eh2k1e$8qk_002(a)s777.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >>>>>>> In article <e97b6$4534dd17$4fe728b$30183(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >>>>>>> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I can state my hidden agenda; preserve the world's accumulated >>>>>>>>> knowledge. Religious extremists have the goal of destroying >>>>>>>>> most of that knowledge. Islamic extremists have the goal of >>>>>>>>> destroying it all because it's a product of Western civilization. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Religious extremism is always the result of one of the following: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>A) Insanity >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>B) Desire for power, control, and wealth >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> None of the above. Fear. Pure, simple terror. >>>>>> >>>>>>OK, if you must, then "fear of losing power, control and wealth". >>>>>>Witness >>>>>>the fear-mongering among the Religious Right in the current election >>>>>>campaign. >>>>> >>>>> I am. More alarming is the message of the Democrats who keep implying >>>>> that there isn't any problem. >>>> >>>>Citation, please. In your zeal to support the current administration, >>>>you're not listening carefully. >>> >>> Listen to any of them. >> >> >>Any and all conversations? Are they really that repetative? > > Yes, the public speeches of the Democrats campaigning are > that repetitive. You should pay especial attention to everything > they don't talk about. They don't talk about what measures they will take to prevent alien attacks - from what I have heard anyway. I don't generally follow American political debates. <snip snide commentary> |