From: Lloyd Parker on
In article <ehv9me$8qk_001(a)s964.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>In article <1161872944.979802.222000(a)k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> "MooseFET" <kensmith(a)rahul.net> wrote:
>>
>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>[....]
>>> Clinton's plans only dealt with Bin Laden? What about the other
>>> 99% of the extremists who intend to make mesess?
>>
>>This is simply false.
>
>Oh, you mean my comment about only Bin Laden.
>>
>>Things I can remember, off the top of my head, Clinton admin doing:
>>
>>(A)
>>The Counter-Terrorism Act of IIRC 1995
>
>I don't remember that one. I'll check it out. Didn't that just
>provide some funding to put cement barriers around a few buildings?
>>
>>(B)
>>Conducted terrorism threat assessment of every federal facility.
>
>I don't believe that. From my recollection the embassies were
>checked and then nothing was done to fix the security problems
>in most of them; no funding was allowed.
>>
>>(C)
>>Pressed the Saudi government to reduce support for the Wahhabis. This
>>I remember because it was a near perfect failure.
>
>I don't call asking a government to reduce support for its brand
>of religion an effective action. That's spitting into a gale
>force wind with expectations that you'll hit the sidewalk
>a hundred miles away.
>
>> The Saudi government
>>had made a faustian bargain with the Wahhabiists and the US depended on
>>Saudi oil so much that there was no leaverage point.
>
>None of these are actions that addresses the problems as Clinton's
>stump speeches would have one believe.
>
>I'll ask again...if those plans were so good and so effective, why
>didn't _Clinton_ use them instead of now blaming Bush for not
>doing it?
>
>Everybody swallows what this man says without any critical thinking.
>I guess that's what JMF called charisma.
>
>/BAH
>

No, we've read Clark's book and Woodword's book.
From: Lloyd Parker on
In article <ehvga6$8qk_008(a)s964.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>In article <45433F9F.F6808F39(a)hotmail.com>,
> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> "MooseFET" <kensmith(a)rahul.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> [Clinton]
>>> >(C)
>>> >Pressed the Saudi government to reduce support for the Wahhabis. This
>>> >I remember because it was a near perfect failure.
>>>
>>> I don't call asking a government to reduce support for its brand
>>> of religion an effective action.
>>
>>It's not *its brand of religion* at all !
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahabbi
>>
>>> That's spitting into a gale
>>> force wind with expectations that you'll hit the sidewalk
>>> a hundred miles away.
>>
>>How would you deal with it then ?
>
>I'd establish a nation with a capitalistic, representative democracy
>with a secular education system mandatory for all residents
>smack dab in the middle of that mess.
>
>/BAH

And then what, leave and hope they like it?
From: Lloyd Parker on
In article <ehvl4j$8qk_001(a)s1270.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>In article <9hJ0h.787$wX.77(a)newssvr12.news.prodigy.com>,
> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
>>news:ehvb5g$8qk_007(a)s964.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com...
>>> In article <1161873433.497805.165040(a)m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>,
>>> "MooseFET" <kensmith(a)rahul.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>>> In article <1161700854.976916.304350(a)k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>>>>[....]
>>>>> >The nuclear power industry has a history of making false promices and
>>>>> >screwing up badly. As a result the idea of making a new power plant
>>>>> >isn't very popular. Strangley enough research into the theory that
>>>>> >makes them go is still fairly popular. This may be a good thing
>>>>> >because a "new generation of safe power plants" may just sell.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only person who is willing to say those "bad" words, nuclear
>>>>> power plant, is Bush.
>>>>
>>>>That is simply false.
>>>>
>>>>At least the these have talked about it at length:
>>>>
>>>>Dennis Kucinich,
>>>>Senator Domenici,
>>>>Sen. Stabenow
>>>>
>>>>I'm sure there are many more but I'm lazy.
>>>
>>> I'll make a point to listen to these people when they talk.
>>
>>You might add Sherrod Brown, Ken Strickland, and Mary Jo Kilroy. I usually
>>TIVO through the ads on TV, but I just happened to catch each of these three
>>in a row, and they're all talking specific plans to deal with terrorism.
>
>What I've heard so far is talk about making plans. It's too late
>to talk about making plans. Everybody should have been trained
>and had a job assigned to them when the next mess happens.
>
>>Certainly better than "stay the course".
>
>Bush's apparently stopped saying that because people don't understand
>what he means.

Actually, they understood too well. When you're sailing towards a waterfall,
you don't just "stay the course."

>
>>You're problem isn't that you
>>refuse to listen to what people say, it's worse than that....you listen
>>selectively, and then refuse to admit that they said something you didn't
>>want to hear.
>
>I'm not the one who is being selective; you are.
>
>
><snip he said, she said>
>
>>IIRC, you mentioned you live in Massachusetts. When exactly was the last
>>time your states grid was insufficient? Not exactly a hotbed of blackouts
>>or brownouts.
>
>This past summer. Projections are not good for winter and worse
>for summer...again according to news reports.
>
>We've had problems since the early 80s. One of my jobs was to
>have a plan and then do it whenever I got a phone call to reduce
>power consumption. This meant shutting down mainframes that got
>extremely cranky if they were powered down.
>
>/BAH
From: Lloyd Parker on
In article <ei4s7g$8qk_001(a)s787.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>In article <1162139745.736188.86580(a)h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
> "MooseFET" <kensmith(a)rahul.net> wrote:
>>
>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>> In article <1161875197.735056.288140(a)m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>,
>>> "MooseFET" <kensmith(a)rahul.net> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
><snip delusional expectations that Democrats never fulfilled>
>
>
>>> The latest edict is forcing everybody to have
>>> medical insurance; if you don't the rumor is that income
>>> tax penalties will be imposed.
>>
>>The state pays for hospitals etc for those who can't pay. They don't
>>want those who can't pay dieing in the streets so they have to fund
>>their medical needs. There are some people who can afford to pay for
>>their own health care who choose to spunge off the system. To
>>discourage this, they are making those who can affort to have
>>insurance, but refuse to get it, pay a little extra towards the care of
>>those who can't afford it. It is a completely rational thing to do if
>>you have the state paying for those who can't.
>>
>>If you don't do this you must either cut off the medical care to the
>>poor or spread the cost of it evenly between the responsible and
>>irresponsible. Neither of these options is better than the one taken.
>
>Massachusetts implemented this with car insurance. It is a mess
>and people are trying to get rid of it. The fact that the Democrats
>have implemented a similar structure for medical insurance (this
>is NOT medical care) bodes ill for all, especially those who
>cannot pay. The new thing that these idiots have implemented is
>tying the payments to income taxes. They did this with sales
>tax and nobody, absolutely nobody, has complained. Think about
>a sales tax which is tied to your income level. I suspect, since
>nobody bitched, these Democrats have done the same thing with
>medical insurance.
>

Europe uses a centralized payment for medical care, as do Canada and Japan.
They cover everybody and spend less.

>Please note that there is a huge difference between medical
>insurance and actual medical care.
>
>
>>
>>If you rely on private charity hospitals, you will find a lot of
>>disagreeable people can't get care. Back when there was entirely
>>private charity, there was the idea of "the deserving poor". Those who
>>were not "deserving" didn't get charity. This may sound like a good
>>idea until you think about what it does to public health. The poor end
>>up acting as a breeding ground for and a resevoir of diseases. You
>>could not of gotten rid of polio without treating everyone.
>
>None of this is about the poor. All of this is about absconding
>people's monies and spending it for them.

Like the Pentagon?
From: lucasea on

<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
news:ei4sfp$8qk_003(a)s787.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com...
> In article <cb1d3$45452d8a$4fe72af$23817(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>,
> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote:
>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>
>>snip
>>
>>> Nothing about annihilation of western civilization is amusing.
>>> This is serious business and it will take another three massive
>>> killings before the insane politicians are thrown out and
>>> ones who are willing to deal with problem constructively are
>>> put back in power.
>>
>>Those who persist in denying the announced and obvious
>>end up driving the defensive system towards an eventual
>>dictatorial authority.
>>
>>Hitler's Mein Kampf was not a secret. The agenda was
>>mapped out in advance. Militant Islam has been advocating
>>against the west for decades. Despite the protestations
>>of some, it is a religion spread by violence and has been
>>from the day that Mohammed decided he was heading up a
>>new religion.
>>
>>If we look at British conduct in the face of Hitler's
>>growing menace, we see the same sorts of appeasement
>>as is being promoted in these related threads. In the
>>case of Britain, they eventually put Churchill in
>>charge. He was one of those "last choice" sorts of
>>men that the appeasers disdained. They historically
>>worked hard to derail him but there came a moment
>>of truth when they were finally unable to deny the
>>realities facing them any longer, and needed a
>>strong man to drive them towards victory. By that
>>time they were in trouble, so America was pulled
>>into the fray, with its own dictator style president
>>at the helm replaced eventually (after death) by a
>>sleeper sort of a strong man who didn't hesitate to
>>use the atomic bomb to end the Pacific war.
>>
>>How many today would have the nerve to actually use a
>>nuclear weapon? Certainly none of the appeasers here
>>want that to happen, but by their actions they're
>>driving the system towards the point where other
>>options will cease to exist.
>>
>>Unfortunately, with the sorts of "good human beings"
>>we're encountering in this newsgroup, we'll probably
>>evenually get to the point where we'll have to use
>>our own final solution to the problem by using nukes.
>>
>>History has taught us that it is a much smaller mess
>>if you take care of business and protect yourself
>>early in the game, rather than late. Keep on ignoring
>>all of history folks. I'll be investing in uranium
>>futures.
>
> Thank you. You write better than I do. Very nicely written.

Congratulating yourself under another alias. You do realize how pathetic
that is, don't you?

Eric Lucas