From: T Wake on 6 Nov 2006 08:41 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:einbet$8qk_006(a)s943.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <454DBACA.3CA76BD2(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: >> >>> "Jamie" <jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_(a)charter.net> wrote in >>> message >>> > Eeyore wrote: >>> > >>> >> Why would anyone spend that much on a watch ? I can't figure it. >>> >> Aside >>> >> from bragging rights of course ! >>> >> >>> > you can't figure it out? why does that >>> > not surprise me? >>> >>> Because not everybody in the world allows the cost of their possessions >>> to >>> define them as human beings? >> >>A film and sound editor acquaintance of mine who's worked in the USA said >>he >>couldn't live there long-term in part because he found the use of wealth >>to >>define yourself to be offensive. > > Then he didn't mix with the usual US types. He only saw a slice > of US. Funny that isn't it. Just goes to show, you can get a totally false impression of a nation and it's people simply by mixing with the wrong types. Wonder where else that could be relevant.
From: Eeyore on 6 Nov 2006 08:42 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> > >> >> >> >Have you already forgotten the reason for the Arab Embargo ? > >> >> >> > >> >> >> Yes. I don't remember all the details. > >> >> > > >> >> >It was because of western backing of Israel. Sound familiar ? Truth is > >> >> >that Israel is the number one messmaker in the region. > >> >> > >> >> Which action? > >> > > >> >Action ? I didn't say action, I said *backing* ! Read what I wrote again. > >> > >> So you imagine that the Arabs put a bunch dates in a hat, picked > >> one and said this the date we start our embargo? These people > >> are not stupid. > > > >Do you ascribe any special importance to the date ? > > > > > >> >> WAs this the time when fUSSR almost gained control > >> >> of whole air space over the Suez Canal? > >> > > >> >What *ARE* you talking about now ?????? !!!!!!! I think you've got some > >> >wires crossed. > >> > >> I'm talking about events that actually happened. In some social > >> circles, this is called history. You apparently are missing > >> some knowledge of what has happened in the recent past. > > > >Are you getting confused with the British / French / Israeli invasion of the > >Suez canal area ? > > Why do you think I asked my question? I have no idea. > I was trying to figure out what time frame you were thinking of. We were discussing the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo if you recall ! Graham
From: Eeyore on 6 Nov 2006 08:43 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > > >> I'm talking about events that actually happened. In some social > >> circles, this is called history. You apparently are missing > >> some knowledge of what has happened in the recent past. > > > >Really, this is not an avenue you want to go down. > > This discussion would be easier to do if you managed to remember > what's really happened in the last two decades. This discussion would be easier if you said what you meant instead of mysteriously alluding to it ! Graham
From: T Wake on 6 Nov 2006 08:43 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:eina74$8qk_001(a)s943.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <d1417$454c9f01$4fe7327$8157(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >> >>Talk about pollution? I smelled coal fires in a residential >>district in August 2002. I haven't smelled coal in the US >>in residential use since the 1950's. BAH you asked about >>pollution and wood fireplaces? They don't have much wood >>left in UK, but they do have plenty of coal They aren't >>bashful about burning it without pollution controls. > > I was sanding a board outside yesterday. The air was thick > with wood smoke. I immediately got a sore throat which > I do when breathing wood smoke. I'm going to have > another winter of constant sore throats. > > Now, take a good look at what happened in Britain w.r.t. > coal and miners and strikes. Use it as an analogy when > making a premise that a similar event will happen with > the oil biz. Please do. I really doubt (either of) you have any understanding of the miners strikes, their causes and the after effects.
From: Eeyore on 6 Nov 2006 08:44
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > You keep assuming that the goal to make Western civilization money > will always exist. If there is no Western trade infrastructure, > there will not be, what we know of, as money. Therefore, bankruptcy, > as a figment of western civilzation, will not exist. Acquisitions > through the booty system is a part of their tradition of expansionism. You truly are quite barking mad. Graham |