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Janithor wrote:
: :I think an argument could :be made that it started with the right wing's obsession with Clinton. : I think an argument could be made that it started with the left wing's obsession with Reagan. : :But I simultaneously absolutely love and absolutely hate Bush, so what :do I know? : Not much, except to mature sufficiently to differentiate between hating a person and disagreeing with their ideas, beliefs, or actions. -- "So many women. So little charm." -- Donna, to Josh; The West Wing |
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Rowland McDonnell wrote:
For your information: while the USA has on two occasions helped Britain defeat an enemy in Europe, the USA has never `supervised' Europe in any way shape or form. Unless one wishes to define the isolated U.S. participation in those wars as a form of supervision, that is largely correct. Actually, though, I remember reading claims that it was the U.S. that pushed European countries into creating the EC. Canada is in consequence a civilised, grown-up nation now; while the USA is quite the opposite and not somewhere any sane person would want to live at all. Canada is indeed a nice, pleasant country to live in. It would be happier if the French-English dichotomy didn't make it fractious like Belgium, but one can't have everything. The United States doesn't have health care that is as good, but it has lower prices and more jobs. I've explained, the biggest war-monger and supporter of terrorism in the world today is the USA - the USA has caused more wars and terrrorism than any other nation going since the end of the Second World War. Irish terrorism wouldn't have existed without US funding, for example. Your nation was funding terrorist attacks against *ME* - I lived in London during the 1960s-1980s. US sponsored international terrorism has been one of the scourges of the world since 1945 - the USA has funded many, many radical left-wing terror groups such as the Provos in Ireland (revolutionary socialists) and the Viet Cong in SE Asia (full-on communists). Not a penny of U.S. taxpayer's money was given to the IRA. It's true that there are people of Irish descent living in the U.S., and they may have had a false, romanticised notion of what the IRA terrorists were up to, but you should really be blaming that on your own ancestors. The original US plan for dealing with Europe after WWII was to drive Germany back to be a subsistence agricultural nation without any industry. That's hardly a mature response to the issue of re-building Europe and preventing future wars. Ah, yes, the Morgenthau plan. I do think it's rather understandable that there would be some people who would have come to the conclusion that Germans, if they were capable of supporting Hitler, must be an eternally cursed people lacking some fundamental element of human decency - and who must therefore *never* be allowed to get their hands on the ability to fight a war again. Someone with a name like Morgenthau might well be one of those people who is more likely to be one of those people. I find it hard to blame someone for holding a grudge about the Holocaust. One decent Yank thought this was appalling - and he persuaded Marshall to lend his name ta a scheme to re-build Europe. Not that Britain got any help that way. Germany got off easily because of the Cold War - but even before that changed matters, the Morgenthau plan was indeed dropped. The EU is that secure because the Cold War - a confrontation between the USSR and USA caused by US paranoia - has ended, and we got to take down the Iron Curtain which would never have existed if the USA hadn't been so threatening to the USSR. So now the malign influence of the USA has been lifted from Europe, we're all sorted. The Cold War was caused because Stalin was the same sort of brutal hideous monster as Hitler. As the people of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and several other countries will tell you quite readily. Had the U.S. not been around to stand up to the USSR, West Germany, France, and Britain would all have suffered the same fate as Eastern Europe. That you fail to realize this, that you fail to realize that you owe the same kind of gratitude to the U.S. taxpayer in succeeding decades, to the soldiers who fell in Korea and Vietnam, as you do to those who fought Hitler in World War II, betrays a profound ignorance on your own part. John Savard |
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"Angelocracy.com" wrote in message
ps.com... http://angelocracy.blogspot.com/ ANOTHER 'MODEST PROPOSAL Please don't...... I have just realized, I will be at the top of the list. -- Mal Three fifths of the time or more, I am usually wrong. So am I drunk or what? |
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On 10/28/07 3:12 AM, in article , "Mally" wrote: "Angelocracy.com" wrote in message ps.com... http://angelocracy.blogspot.com/ ANOTHER 'MODEST PROPOSAL Please don't...... I have just realized, I will be at the top of the list. how odd. you're stupid, yet you would prefer to live? we hadn't foreseen this variation. |
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"cal" wrote in message ... On 10/28/07 3:12 AM, in article , "Mally" wrote: "Angelocracy.com" wrote in message ps.com... http://angelocracy.blogspot.com/ ANOTHER 'MODEST PROPOSAL Please don't...... I have just realized, I will be at the top of the list. how odd. you're stupid, yet you would prefer to live? we hadn't foreseen this variation. Ha Ha! Just shows, this good for nothing might just be good for something. ;o) -- Mal Three fifths of the time or more, I am usually wrong. So am I drunk or what? |
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Janithor wrote:
Rowland McDonnell wrote: It really is quite amazing - you dismiss criticism of the government on the grounds that anyone making such criticism is mentally ill! No, YOU'RE mentally ill. Good luck with that. Interesting - someone else has a mental health problem unrelated to yours[1], and you use that as evidence that you do not suffer from psychosis? You really should see your doctor soon for your own safety. There are many drugs available that can help you - or at least keep you under control and so out of hospital or prison. Please do so, for your own good. Rowland. [1] I suffer from anxiety and depression. Experience shows that the available drugs are useless for me. -- Remove the animal for email address: Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |
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_/ Rowland McDonnell wrote \_
[1] I suffer from anxiety and depression. Experience shows that the available drugs are useless for me. I think maybe your problems are caused by your cognitive distortions, and wouldn't be helped with medication. Here are a few I've noticed you have: Overgeneralization. Mental Filter. Jumping to Conclusions. Magnifications. Labeling and Mislabeling. Print out some of your recent posts and bring them to a CBT therapist, and see what they have to say. Maybe you can get some help. -- -slunky |
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:51:12 -0700, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Ivan Marsh wrote: :On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:47:09 -0700, Fred J. McCall wrote: : : "%" wrote: : : : : :"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message : :news : wrote: : : : :On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:03:23 -0700, Fred J. McCall wrote: : : : : : Tim wrote: : : : : : Not everyone falls into the conventional VIQ near to PIQ pattern . : : : : : : As in 'not everyone is equally bright. : : : : :You are only proving that you are not bright. : : : : : : Keep gulping on that hook, Ivan... : : : : : : :Let me give you a real world example. : : : : :A class of young children were given a test where one of the : requirements : :was to draw a circle with a line under it. : : : : :Except for one of the kids all the kids drew a circle then a line : lower on : :the page... a circle with a line under it. : : : : :The one kid that didn't do what everyone else did drew a circle with : two : :lines protruding from a 180 degree angle... a circle with a line : under it : :represented in three dimensions. : : : : : :The kid was moved to a remedial class until someone with half a : brain : :reviewed the exercise and realized that he was displaying : spacial : erception far advanced of the rest of the class. : : : : : : Let me simply point out that it's not my fault you live in a stupid : : part of the world. Birds of a feather and all that. : : : : : : :In science it's a common mistake to let expectations corrupt the : : :interpretation of results. : : : : : : : Not in real science, it isn't. : :[That's not argument. That's just contradiction...] : : :yes it is : : : : No, it isn't. : : [That's not argument. That's just contradiction...] : :You're suggesting the same argument you made to me isn't valid when :someone makes it to you. : :I restate my assumption regarding the brightness of your bulb. I suggest you need to go watch some Monty Python's Flying Circus. Look up "The Argument Sketch". So, is this a five minute argument or the full half hour? [Do I need to call you an ignorant git at this point?] It's not my fault you don't know you're in the "getting hit on the head with a hammer" room. ....everyone here is much smarter than you. -- I told you this was going to happen. |
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Ivan Marsh wrote:
:On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:51:12 -0700, Fred J. McCall wrote: : : Ivan Marsh wrote: : : :On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:47:09 -0700, Fred J. McCall wrote: : : : : "%" wrote: : : : : : : : :"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message : : :news : : wrote: : : : : :On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:03:23 -0700, Fred J. McCall wrote: : : : : : : Tim wrote: : : : : : : Not everyone falls into the conventional VIQ near to PIQ pattern . : : : : : : : : As in 'not everyone is equally bright. : : : : : :You are only proving that you are not bright. : : : : : : : : Keep gulping on that hook, Ivan... : : : : : : : : :Let me give you a real world example. : : : : : :A class of young children were given a test where one of the : : requirements : :was to draw a circle with a line under it. : : : : : :Except for one of the kids all the kids drew a circle then a line : : lower on : :the page... a circle with a line under it. : : : : : :The one kid that didn't do what everyone else did drew a circle with : : two : :lines protruding from a 180 degree angle... a circle with a line : : under it : :represented in three dimensions. : : : : : : : :The kid was moved to a remedial class until someone with half a : : brain : :reviewed the exercise and realized that he was displaying : : spacial : erception far advanced of the rest of the class. : : : : : : : : Let me simply point out that it's not my fault you live in a stupid : : : part of the world. Birds of a feather and all that. : : : : : : : : :In science it's a common mistake to let expectations corrupt the : : : :interpretation of results. : : : : : : : : : : Not in real science, it isn't. : : : :[That's not argument. That's just contradiction...] : : : : :yes it is : : : : : : : No, it isn't. : : : : [That's not argument. That's just contradiction...] : : : :You're suggesting the same argument you made to me isn't valid when : :someone makes it to you. : : : :I restate my assumption regarding the brightness of your bulb. : : I suggest you need to go watch some Monty Python's Flying Circus. Look : up "The Argument Sketch". : : So, is this a five minute argument or the full half hour? : : [Do I need to call you an ignorant git at this point?] : :It's not my fault you don't know you're in the "getting hit on the head :with a hammer" room. : But it is your fault that you're a cultural illiterate. Hell, even Rowlie got it... : :...everyone here is much smarter than you. : Yeah, sure you are. It's just that you're so clever at concealing it. Yeah, that's the ticket... You, of course, needn't worry in your hypothetical room, since you're already dead from the neck up... -- "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." -- Thomas Jefferson |
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