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From: Ken Smith on 8 Aug 2006 22:34 In article <fmeid2t6djjidoi6sur26tfb2rpvm1eo95(a)4ax.com>, John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: [.... I'll slightly edit what I posted ....] >>In the US everything "The Department Of The Interior" is in charge of is >>outdoors. Do I have to say more? :> >Perhaps. AFAIK, the "Department of The Interior" has to do with >what happens within our own borders. Do you have evidence to >support that that isn't true? Did that make it clearer? -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Eeyore on 8 Aug 2006 22:35 Phat Bytestard wrote: > On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:21:30 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us: > > > As did the USA with their Norden bombsight that didn't actually > >deliver the goods in practice. > > That would be Norton. No it wouldn't. Can't get anything right as usual...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norden_bombsight > We fire bombed Dresden for the UK. We didn't need no stinkin' > bombsights. It was at night, and we dropped a huge salvo. There was no " for the UK " about it. Graham
From: Phat Bytestard on 8 Aug 2006 22:42 On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:03:26 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> Gave us: >John Larkin wrote: >> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:13:23 +0100, Eeyore >> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> John Larkin wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:04:26 +0100, Eeyore >>>> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> This is the kind of attitude that makes the USA so truly loathesome. >>>> We like it! >>> Which only goes to show how out of sync the USA is with the entire rest of the >>> world. >> >> >> I think there are two fundamental misunderstandings here: >> >> 1. Europe isn't "the rest of the world" >> >> and >> >> 2. We don't care. > >You certainly were made to care by Bin Laden. >Old European saying - "Don't care was made to care" > Old world saying: "You're an idiot."
From: Phat Bytestard on 8 Aug 2006 22:45 On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:14:12 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> Gave us: >On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:34:39 +0100, Eeyore ><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >>John Woodgate wrote: >> >>> In message <44D83E8F.3DA551(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, dated Tue, 8 Aug >>> 2006, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> writes >>> >>> >Sorry, John but I don't see that the argument that the US was attacked >>> >because of jealousy over the richness of the western lifestyle holds >>> >any water at all. >>> >>> Neither do I. Western lifestyle is contrary to many tenets of >>> established religions, Islam in particular but not exclusively. The >>> clerics see their raison d'?tre threatened, and they are not wrong. So >>> they fire up their militants - 'jihad' is not just a label, they really >>> mean 'holy war'. Christianity largely went through a similar phase >>> around 500 years ago, waging war not only against people of other faiths >>> but, in many cases with even more spilling of blood, among the factions >>> and about the merest slivers of difference of interpretation. >> >>I entirely agree with your clarification. >> >>Another mistake I see the US making is the belief that *all* Moslems are wedded >>to this 'backward' view. > > >That's silly. W made a point of meeting with Muslims in mosques >immediately after 9/11. We, in fact allowed 13 members of the Bin Laden family fly back to saudi arabia when not another plane was in the air. > We have a sizable Islamic population around >here (including one of my engineers), mosques and all, and nobody I >personally know thinks anything of the sort. I happen to know one that thinks that no plane hit the Pentagon. The guy is scary on the wrong side. > Officially, we work with >any number of Islamic nations as allies. I know some that are not like the above as well. >You really think Americans are identical dopes. We're neither. You >should travel more. We are more diverse than europe ever could be.
From: John Woodgate on 9 Aug 2006 01:38
In message <j9iid2df2uc6jth789jlcll3dvq53t1i2o(a)4ax.com>, dated Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Phat Bytestard <phatbytestard(a)getinmahharddrive.org> writes > A rarety for you, John. Its. Its! Its! Its! hehe :-] 'rarety'! Grow up! -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK |