Re: Earthquake hits Mexico this morning

On 16 mei, 20:36, John Fields <jfie...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:54:38 -0700 (PDT), bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On 16 mei, 13:46, John Fields <jfie...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:49:08 -0700 (PDT), bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On 15 mei, 18:31, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-Web-
Site.com> wrote:
A big earthquake with the strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale has
hit Mexico. Two million Mexicans have died and over a million are
injured. The country is totally ruined and the government doesn't
know where to start with providing help to rebuild.

The rest of the world is in shock.

Canada is sending troops to help the Mexican army control the riots.

Saudi Arabia is sending oil.

Other Latin American countries are sending supplies.

The European community (except France) is sending food and money.

The United States, not to be outdone, is sending two million
replacement Mexicans.

                                        ...Jim Thompson

Jim doesn't seem to have a problem with a joke that starts "Two
million Mexacans have died". He must know some rib-ticklers about the
Holocaust.

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The holocaust was real, while the Mexican earthquake (as one finds out
in the punch line) was fabricated for the purpose of creating the
dichotomy which makes the joke funny, you miserable, humorless wretch.

Only an idiot with a thoroughly defective sense of humour would find
that particular punch-line funny.
Only an idiot with thoroughly defective moral sense would find it
appropriate to fabricate a joke around the death of a couple of
million human beings.

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Since you lack any sort of a sense of humor and depend on your
perverted sense of morality to guide you, you're certainly in no
position to tell others what's "appropriate".
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Such an idiot is obviously willing to pontificate about other people's
sense of humour, but if they were just slightly less stupid, they
wouldn't bother - who's going to pay any attention to their opinion?

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You, for one, otherwise you wouldn't have replied.
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Since you post included a couple of new and libelous and - as usual -
completely false claims about my opinions, I didn't really have that
option.

But. I could be wrong...  

Unexpected evidence of insight.

You probably find humor in 9/11 or, at the very least, "It serves them
right."

Back to completely wrong. There was nothing funny about 9/11, and none
of the people killed had done anything to deserve it.

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Wrong again; the perpetrators certainly had.
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The perpetrators were the killers, not the killed.

There are people
in the American heirachy who should go before the International Court
of Justice for crimes against humanity (which is persumably why Dubbya
claims that that court has no jurisdiction over US citizens),

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Most Americans in the "hierarchy" are so hated that giving an
international court jurisdiction over them would certainly result in
their being put to death if for no other reason than the
vindictiveness of the haters.
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Since execution isn't a sentence that the international court of
justice is empowered to impose, this is another one of your pig
ignorant lies. I haven't seem much evidence of hatred for even the
most despicable members of the American heirachy - there is a general
feeling that they ought to be tried and convicted for their numerous
crimes against humanity, primarily to discourage others from being
equally stupid and ignorant - but nothing that could be described as
vindictive hatred outside of the genuinely demented terrorist
organisations like Al Qaeda, who aren't any more enthusiastic about
the international court of justice than you and Dubbya.

but even
that wouldn't justify a perfectly selective terrorist attack that only
took them out - I don't believe in the death penaly when it is imposed
by a properly constituted judicial system, and I'm even less
enthusiastic about free-lance murder.

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Yes, your preferred method is to talk someone to death.
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Like I said, I'm not in favour of any form of free-lance murder - and
in any event nobody ever actually seems to have been talked to death.
Legislation can be talked to death - you've even got a word -
"filibuster" - for the process, but it isn't seen as a real threat to
human life - as evidneced by the fact that no state of the union has
ever proposed to adopt it as a way of executing criminals.

As a Texan you presumably approved of Dubbya's habit of approving the
execution of the intellectually challenged in the pursuit of political
popularity with the morally challeged right wing voter - people like
you, in other words.

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People _do_ like me, thank you very much.

There's no accounting for taste.

As for your never-ending anti-Bush and anti-Texan rant, why is what we
do any business of yours?  You're an impotent old misanthrope whose
hate-filled rhetoric has the power to do little but annoy.

Since the idiot has persuaded the US legislature to give him the power
to invade the Netherlands to release any American citizen arrested for
trial by the international court in the Hague, his antics are of
interest anybody living in the Netherlands. Granting the incompetence
of the US intelligence services, we can expect an invasion anytime a
Dutch tourist is picked up for shop-lifting, since we can't rely on
your "diplomats" - mostly generous contributors to the Republican
election funds - to recognise the difference between the Dutch legal
system and the international court of justice.

BTW, don't forget that if it wasn't for Texas you wouldn't be able to
afford your current lifestyle, you ingrate.

My wife was ill-advised to do her Ph.D. in Austin, Texas - she would
have got better training (and less aggravation) if she gone directly
to MIT as a graduate student, rather than waiting until after she'd
got her Ph.D. to spend time there as a post-doc. She'd probably have
got to the top sooner if she'd skipped Texas - the people she met at
MIT have made a lot of difference to her career, while the people she
met via Texas have proved to be irrelevant (though some of them were
pleasant enough, and remained good friends).

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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