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On 18 Aug 2006 08:23:05 -0700, "Tchiowa" wrote:
Dave Frightens Me wrote: On 17 Aug 2006 18:49:47 -0700, "Tchiowa" wrote: Bias by definition. No where in that article did anyone post any actual government figures as you claimed they did. All you are saying is that the BBC and the attorney would have to be biased. No, I'm saying that the BBC has been proven to be biased on this issue and that the lawyer is paid to be biased. I am waiting for you to demonstrate what that bias is in this case. ???? What more do you need? Both the BBC and the lawyer have a specific bias to oppose the war and the incarceration of the prisoners of war. And all the article did is to quote biased sources. Thus the bias is demonstrated. And since you are the one supporting their claim then the burden of proof is on you to justify that support. Go ahead. And, again, you claimed that the figures came from government sources yet that is proven to be untrue. So quote the government sources. Go ahead. Would there be a point? You refuse to believe anything except the party line. You said: "As it always is with prisoners of war. The fact that they were captured on a battleground is all that it takes." I have read that sentence 3 more times, played it backwards, rearranged the letters, translated it into about 47 languages. Can't find anywhere where I said anyone was *guilty* of anything. Oh, so you still stand by this statement, even after it has been demonstrated wrong? Demonstrated wrong when? From the biased article that made a claim? That's not demonstrating that it's wrong. So tell me where it was demonstrated wrong. Go ahead. Most of those collected were not necessarily Taliban, but anyone they could have found. Sadly, no one is willing to allow them to defend themselves. A shooting war? What war are you talking about? ????? 9/11? Madrid? London? Any of this ring a bell? Yeah, none involved shooting IIRC. A "shooting war" is a term to refer to a hot war where people are actually being killed as opposed to a cold war. Hello. Never heard of it, and neither has dictionary.com or wiki. I don't condone that, Actually you just did. When you (or anyone) uses a sentence that starts something like "I oppose terrorism" there is one and only one proper way to punctuate it. That is with a period, dot, full stop ".". As in "I oppose terrorism." But if you punctuate it with "but...." then you are actually condoning it. What rubbish. You are merely saying that if I question the modes of dealing with it, I condone the terrorists. No. I'm saying that if you support the reasons for the terrorism then you are condoning the terrorists. Those 'reasons' would be anything you wanted I guess. The war on terrorism is over, in case you hadn't noticed. ????? So the BBC lied when they reported the interrupted plan to bomb the airliners last week? It's been renamed "The Long War" now. Gee, what a cute little trick. I guess when you have no logical argument that's what you have to resort to. Much like you using 'shooting war' then, as if it's a widely used term. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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On 18 Aug 2006 08:24:55 -0700, "Tchiowa" wrote:
Dave Frightens Me wrote: On 17 Aug 2006 21:12:55 -0700, "Tchiowa" wrote: Carole Allen wrote: On 17 Aug 2006 08:09:52 -0700, "Tchiowa" wrote: That would be the phantoms that knocked down the Twin Towers and killed 3,000 people? The phantoms that bombed the Madrid subway? The phantoms that bombed the UK transit system? The phantoms that were just stopped from bombing 10 trans-Atlantic flights? *Those* phantoms? The guys who did the Twin Towers were not Iraqi and had nothing to do with Iraq. Which has what to do with what I was talking about???? Absolutely everything given that's where the majority of the US anti-terror funds are going. What a raging success that's been. Nonsense. I'll say one thing for you, you have developed quite a complex fantasy world for yourself to live in. Again you can't communicate properly. Nonsense - Iraq has been a disaster? Nonsense - it's using most of the money? Nonsense - (insert random stuff here)? -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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On 18 Aug 2006 08:52:17 -0700, "Tchiowa" wrote:
Dave Frightens Me wrote: On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:35:54 +0100, The Reid wrote: Following up to Carole Allen The guys who did the Twin Towers were not Iraqi and had nothing to do with Iraq. are there still a lot of Americans who don't realise that? Yes. I have met quite a few that are convinced of this, and various other bits of bull****, like Saddam being in league with Osama and preparing to offer him sanctuary. I suppose this means that I now have to look up the 9/11 commission report which says that Saddam in fact offered sanctuary to Osama. Not was "preparing to offer" it but actually did according to the testimony they received. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 but Saddam was, in fact, trying to create an alliance with Osama to fight their common enemy. OK. Here it is. I'm betting you won't bother to read it because you obviously have an aversion to facts and learning. But I'll try anyway. http://www.9-11commission.gov/report...0commission%22 Be careful. This is full of facts and knowledge. Dangerous things for people like you who don't want their precious private fantasy world disrupted. And you have the gall to claim the BBC is biased! And no, I am not going to read 585 pages to try to prove you right, believe it or not. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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Dave Frightens Me wrote:
On 18 Aug 2006 08:23:05 -0700, "Tchiowa" wrote: Go ahead. Would there be a point? You know it's pointless. Why are you continuing? -- PB The return address has been MUNGED My travel writing: http://www.iol.ie/~draoi/ |
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Hatunen wrote:
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:29:14 GMT, mrtravel wrote: Hatunen wrote: The question is, is a passport required to do the traveling? In the case of the 200 year old Randall document, I suspect not. The Randall document isnot a passport in the modern sense of that word. I also note that the document is issued by the US consul at Malta requesting the courtesy of the island for Mr Randall, who seems to have already arrived there. Do a bit of research on passports and then get back to us. Passports are NOT something newly created in the 20th century. In my original post I admit I misspoke: I meant not that passports came into being after WW1 but that the requirement for passports in Europe came into being after WW1. There were standardizations of passports after WW1, that is correct. However, the purpose of the passports were still similar. |
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Tchiowa wrote:
[...] English is the primary and *official* language of government for the EU. Y'know, it would be a great idea if you spent a little less quality time on the crack pipe before posting this lunatic nonsense. The EU conducts its parliamentary sessions in 20 languages, not just English. There's nothing "primary" about it. The EU is legendary for the vast amounts of paper consumed in publishing translations from any given language to all the others. Yeah, English is sometimes used for internal work, as is French and German. It is far from being *the* primary and "*official*" language of the EU, though. It is the primary language of business throughout the EU. It's *a* language of business throughout the EU, with the obvious exceptions of the UK and Ireland. English might mixed with local languages, or it might be used as a lingua franca in a multi- national team. It is the primary language for education throughout the EU. Right. They just quit teaching everything in their native language in, say, France, Germany, and Poland. Sure. You bet. Kids learn it before their own native tongues. Good crack in your 'hood, or is it the opium laced pot that makes you like this? Time to get back into the current century. http://linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-166.html "Current century?" Not with that reference; published in 2000 (end of last century) and cites work from 20 years before that. That, and it discusses English as a third language (L3) in various European contexts. Keep up with the lunatic nonsense, though. You're really succeeding at getting people to believe it by the classic Usenet method of "proof by repeated and blatant assertion." -- dgs |
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Tchiowa wrote:
The Reid wrote: Following up to Carole Allen and Europeans can travel between most countries without going through any kind of passport control. there's no place for common sense in this debate. Plenty of common sense in the discussion. It's your ability to comprehend that is at question. Nah. His common sense is fine. Your reading comprehension, though, has spent way too much time being filtered through a crack pipe. The French speak English in the street, Many do. By "many," you mean "a random small number I pulled out of my ass." Yes, it makes more sense now. And the government of France is now using English. Did you see where Chirac walked out of a meeting because one of his ministers decided to use English? President Jacques Chirac of France stormed out of a European Union summit meeting after a French employers' leader said that English was "the language of European business". That happened last March. Note that this wasn't "one of his ministers." The lunatic notion that the government of France is "now using English" is yet to be proven, except of course by your standard of blatant and repeated assertion. -- dgs |
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On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:01:50 +0100, Padraig Breathnach
wrote: Dave Frightens Me wrote: On 18 Aug 2006 08:23:05 -0700, "Tchiowa" wrote: Go ahead. Would there be a point? You know it's pointless. Why are you continuing? Apparently I am being rather silly! -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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"Gorazd Bozic" wrote in message ... Tchiowa wrote: Sorry, but while it may have been used in some circles, *common* usage didn't happen until the Balkans came apart rather violently in the 90s. People used it often well before the breakup of Yugoslavia. You and your 'circle' heard about it only recently, apparently. Without checking OED, I'm comfortable that "Balkanization" was not uncommon in usage in the last quarter of the 19th century, and in widespread usage before 1939. TMO |
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"The Reid" wrote ... Following up to Hatunen As I pointed out elsewhere, there were no passports until after WW1. Maybe not in the current sense, I'm sure ive seen a passport signed by Elizabeth 1st. More a safe passage, I imagine. The first versions, dating certainly to the Renaissance if not earlier, were certainly requests by sovereigns (or local administrators) requesting "Safe Passage". All sorts of early explorers and commercial travelers carried them. My French is not what it never was, (and its spelling worse), but distant memory gives me the common usage of "Laissez Passer" for such documents, in translation certainly implying such purpose. TMO |
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