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(...) Postal Services worldwide, being overwhelmed by lettters from the kids to Santa Claus, petitioned the Canadian Government for years to change a specific Postal Code(1). One of the last things PET did before he stepped down was to make an (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You also have to ignore embassies. :-) Jude BTW, Santa lives in Quebec (All postal codes beginning with H are in la belle province). (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't think there is any part of the United States that is due north of any part of Canada, unless you're talking about that little wedge of land known as the pan handle of Alaska--that may be due north of Victoria Island. Alaska is more of (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?)
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(...) And I hasten to add that I grew up *due north* of Canada...in the United States (shouldn't be hard to figure out where). :) LFB (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Bush Knew?
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(...) "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli (URL) reading of "LHistoire de Juliette, ou les Prospérités du Vice" by Comte Donatien Alphonse François De Sade wouldn't hurt either. Lacking a URL, I give you this: "The mechanism that directs government (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) without (...) relocated (...) Before I get down the answer proper, is it safe to take your note as an assertion opposite mine -- that sentimental attachment to a particular area highly productive? Now, as you well know, I would not take well (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?)
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(...) I came up with this great idea the other day. We should release quarters with the Canadian provinces the way we're doing with American states. It was a silly conversation, but I was just imagining the uproar (from all sides) if our mint (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Returning stuff to Comp USA
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"Suzanne D. Rich" <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:542B6FFC-6DBE-1...ate.com... (...) I also have a conscience pang about doing something like this, but at first I could not figure out why. It does not seem to hurt either store explicitly. (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (ka-snip of worthy observations regarding Bush, Enron, the Conservative Media, etc.). (...) United Statesian is so confusing to those of us who live so close to the border of the United States of Mexico. Which United Statesian are they (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What possible "proof" could I provide that would change your mind? None; a useless exercise which I choose to ignore. (...) I never said it did. I merely said it was an article which may explain our differences. (...) I don't even know if what (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?)
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(...) Okay, call us even. Dave! (22 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You did, I work for EDS in Ottawa, Ontario. Jude (22 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Come on, Steve. They gave us Michael J. Fox--don't wish American politicians on him. Of course, they did dump Alanis Morisette on us. What if we give them Ross Perot? Dave! (22 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?)
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(...) Heh. So your pols are all American, then? (Ottawa -> 45.42N,75.7W) Steve (22 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message news:GwsvMD.Iu5@lugnet.com... (...) Apparently there were three separate sources with the US Government and secret services about terrorist activities pertaining to events leading up to (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, just expressing my view. (...) However, the article is interesting. It compares the US and European Press without saying who is right or wrong. Its main conclusion is that the European Press is more pro-Palestinian than what you have in (...) (22 years ago, 29-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, possibly, though I don't believe so in this case. (...) Welcome to the real world. (...) (URL) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Are you trying to *bait* me? Here's another article which may explain our differences: (URL) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I seriously doubt that anyone in authority knew 9/11 "specifically" was about to happen. I think it is pretty clear that something like 911 could have been predicted{1}, and that perhaps air security should have been tightened a touch (and/or (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, obviously the first *televised* moon landing was filmed on a sound stage (in Death Valley, as it turns out, rather than Hollywood). The underlying conspiracy is that the real first lunar landing took place in 1963 as part of a joint (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Lemme ask a question here. How well do you think our democracy works in a situation like this? What could Bush have done to stop it? What *have* they done to stop it? Reinforced airplane doors? Heightened security? How much pressure do you (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Can any thinking person actually, logically, believe that any sitting president would look the other way while their country was attacked just for economic gain? This goes beyond politics to basic human morality. I refuse that any person in a (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) some kind of Bush apologist, from this and other occasions people have called attention to her work. But here is the thing -- I really don't give a damn about Bin Laden or Afghanistan if our president, the intelligence community, the national (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (here it comes...) Yeah, well, I'm not American and I couldn't give a rat's patootie what some gun lovin' hick from Texas thinks of me. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, unless *proven* that he knew specifically that 9/11 was going o (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Indeed, Scotland has "refugees" in much of commonwealth (e.g. Canada and NZ). But that's all in the past; we are one big happy nation now. I'm even looking forward to viewing England's progress in the World Cup. I have enjoyed their last two (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <blink blink> Really? The Scots and the English have been assuming ownership of each others abandoned property for centuries, I thought. They've even occaisionally arranged for a little spontanious abandonment. James (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You don't have proof then! Scott A (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Be careful Richard. The USA is at W A R. As such, your comments are unpatriotic. The thought police will be knocking on your door any moment now. Scott A (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If a family has lived on the same plot of land for generations, why should they be removed (relocated) without compensation to provide a home for an economic migrant from the former USSR who has chosen relocation to improve his own personal (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You're wrong. Read around the subject a little more. As the Israeli forces advanced they destroyed whole villages in their path. Israel was able to clear 80% of Palestinians from the area (~700,000 individuals). (...) Well, I think they wanted (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm definitely on the same page with that--take the land away from both parties. Like a parent taking a toy away from two fighting kids until they both act more mature. As for the pregnant men--ouch!--Arnold in 'Junior' Dave (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) only relocation by their own choice - AFAIK, Israel never forced anyone to leave their houses in '48 (or '67), the people who left did so from their own free will. Fearing Israel will do to them what the Arab countries would have done to the (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This is the part that messes me up, though; aren't there quite a few people now living in that region who were personally subject to relocation? If so, then they would seem to have a legitimate grievance. (...) Well, sure--I agree that (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well I like(1) the solution offered in _The Fresco_ (by Sheri S. Tepper, an SF author who really has grown on me lately, she's worth some careful reading) In that novel the aliens, after observing the situation, ejected everyone from old (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) One difference is that you haven't been warring with the same faction for the last 2000+ years. If, out of the blue, someone were to come knocking at your door and relocate your family, an injustice has just occured against you. If, on the (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes: Dave! (...) Its definitly okay to call youself American. I have as yet to meet a person in Canada who thinks differently. On our news, in our papers, we call you guys south of the 49th 'Americans'. (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So I take it that if the ATF dropped by your place this afternoon and relocated your family to, I don't know, a desert in New Mexico, you'd just buck up and make the best of it? If not, then please explain the difference for me. Dave! (22 years ago, 26-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm American(1), and I don't like him either, but I'll likewise give him the benefit. However, a number of right-wing demagogues in the media *still* gripe about Clinton as if he's *still* busily destroying the entirety of the universe, but (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (URL) points out that knowing that *some* terrorist attack *may* happen *somewhere* and knowing that a bunch of insane moronic idiotic lower-than-life infidels hijacking planes with knives and such at 8 a.m. on Tuesday September 11, 2001 , are (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Wow -- if that turns out to be true in the long-term I think I am feeling fairly outraged. Bush has done nothing but use the whole crisis to boost his popularity, and now it may be that he knew in advance. Shades of what Roosevelt knew about Pearl (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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