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On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:57:12 -0500, "Robert J. Kolker"
wrote: Don't hold your breath till biblica prophesy comes true. You will turn blue first. I am not personally committed to any of this. I am just curious. If it happens, then my having followed it will put me ahead of the crowd. If it does not happen, I can write it off with no loss. -- "A politician's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright." -Robert Heinlein |
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On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 08:25:59 +1000, "Johnboy"
wrote: Anyway, is it possible that both groups have considerable numbers of homosexuals, but 90% of American Protestant clergy have been indocrinated into a reactionary church, and therefore say what it good for them, while the Church of England does not inspire such fear and loathing in it's adherents but encourages openness and moral courage? All I can do is go with the data. I think the problem here is the position of left, centre, and right. In most of the the western countries - probably all - the little pin in the wall chart that says "here is the centre" is way to the left of where the citizens of the USA would put the same pin. Indeed. Now, I'm sure that you would snort through your nose, and just decide that what those other countries think just doesn't matter. Fine. I am sure that would be the prevailing attitude of most Americans. But that does indicate just a *hint* of ignorance, perhaps a touch of arrogance, and a very large dollup of hubris. Actually you are wrong about that. I use the terms left and right as they were originally intended but modernized. Left = Statism Right = Individualism -- "A politician's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright." -Robert Heinlein |
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On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 20:05:54 -0400, "Scott Hedrick"
wrote: Martyrs tend to make these situations worse, not better. Not if you make *enough* of them. Bleedin' Jezuz and all his followers did a pretty good job of it. -- "A politician's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright." -Robert Heinlein |
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On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:29:47 +1000, "Johnboy"
wrote: You don't have any violent crime? That's incredible. An astonishing misreading of my sentence. I believe the last sentence ended with "only people who use guns to fight crime are members of the police force." which, I believe, has already answered your question. LOL. Ever read the book "Dial 911 and Die". The only thing the police will do is draw chalk lines around you. -- "A politician's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright." -Robert Heinlein |
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"Robert J. Kolker" wrote in message ... CatPanDaddy wrote: But radical jihad Islam is more like the common cold than Rome ever was. It knows no physical boundaries and it mutates and assimilates. You can't exterminate the common cold. The ROmans considered Carthage a disease and Hanibal was its worse symptom. They "cured" the disease. No more Carthage, which proves that total distruction IS possible and you don't even need nuclear weapons. The Romans did it with spears, axes, swords and arrows. Delenda Cartago Est! Do you know what that means? That was Romes pledge to utterly destroy Carthage. And they did it eventuyally. It took three wars. Bob Kolker Apples and oranges. Carthage was a city-state with a much smaller population and geographical area. Islam is not a convenient little Carthage-shaped plot of land. It's millions upon millions of people in many regions of the world. Nukings and carpet bombings are not going to give you the result you want. The magnitude of difference between the two examples is so great I should have called it blueberries and cantaloupes instead of apples and oranges. |
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On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:48:37 +1000, "Johnboy"
wrote: "Robert J. Kolker" wrote in message ... Bob wrote: On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:36:28 -0400, "Robert J. Kolker" wrote: Invented and designed by leftist queers like Whipple and Barnes-Wallace. Why do you say that they were leftist queers? YOU said it. They were Brits. Gosh Bob, and you accused me in another post of hysterical hyperbole! Your comments seem to be hysterical hyperbole mixed with shameless hypocracy. It was I who used the term "hysterical hyperbole", not Kolker. Please do strive to get it right frim now on. -- "A politician's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright." -Robert Heinlein |
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On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 08:45:30 +1000, "Johnboy" wrote:
"Bob" wrote: .... Johnboy, if you just can't resist responding to whackos, could you at least trim sci.space.history from the list of groups you're posting to? Practically all of your 50+ posts over the past few days have been crossposted to several groups. It's getting to be time to killfile you- regardless of the content of your posts, which I don't find particularly objectionable otherwise... Dale (not sure he's even reading s.s.h, but I'm not going to crosspost this... |
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Bob wrote:
Actually you are wrong about that. I use the terms left and right as they were originally intended but modernized. Left = Statism Right = Individualism Historically left and right referred to where the factions sat in the French revolutionary assembly during the French Revolution. Those on the left were radically republican those on the right much less radical. For example Marat and Robespierre were on the left. Thus the left became associated with more radical anti-monarchical principles. The burgoise types would have been more right than left since they were propertarians. In any case the French Revolution was much more left skewed than the American revolution. The American Revolution left intact most British customs and laws. The issue was independence, not remaking society upward from the molecular level. The French thought of their revolution as a totally New Order. They even redid the calender and abolished all the old units of weights and measures. The metric system was a result of the French revolution. Bob Kolker |
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