ff in Cuba

rb608 wrote:
On Dec 28, 9:11 pm, rw wrote:

No other posts on ROFF this Dec. 28. Does this mean that Usenet is dead?


No, it means it's a holiday; and everybody but you and I have better
things to do than post to ROFF..

Joe F.

True enough. My wife and my older daughter are in Minneapolis, visiting
family. My younger daughter is in NYC at a reunion. I'm alone in here
California with the dogs and cats and birds.

Still, I get the distinct feeling that Usenet traffic in general, and
ROFF in particular, is falling off. Didn't anyone even get any ff tackle
or books for Christmas?

And where do you stand on travel restrictions to Cuba?

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rw wrote:

Still, I get the distinct feeling that Usenet traffic in general, and
ROFF in particular, is falling off.

I found this gem in Wikipedia:

"Over time, the amount of Usenet traffic has steadily increased. It is
important to note, however, that much of this traffic increase reflects
not an increase in discrete users or newsgroup discussions, but instead
the combination of massive automated spamming and an increase in the use
of .binaries newsgroups in which large files (frequently pornography or
pirated media) are often posted publicly."

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rw wrote:

And where do you stand on travel restrictions to Cuba?


Well......not everyone has them. I've never been , but many of my
freinds have. They enjoyed it a lot.

Tim Lysyk

Tim Lysyk wrote:
rw wrote:


And where do you stand on travel restrictions to Cuba?


Well......not everyone has them. I've never been , but many of my
freinds have. They enjoyed it a lot.

Tim Lysyk

You suck. :-)

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On Dec 28, 6:37*pm, rw wrote:
rb608 wrote:
On Dec 28, 9:11 pm, rw wrote:

No other posts on ROFF this Dec. 28. Does this mean that Usenet is dead?

No, it means it's a holiday; and everybody but you and I have better
things to do than post to ROFF..

Joe F.

True enough. My wife and my older daughter are in Minneapolis, visiting
family. My younger daughter is in NYC at a reunion. I'm alone in here
California with the dogs and cats and birds.

Still, I get the distinct feeling that Usenet traffic in general, and
ROFF in particular, is falling off. Didn't anyone even get any ff tackle
or books for Christmas?

And where do you stand on travel restrictions to Cuba?

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Per Cuba. . . Maybe. I understand that polling of Cuban Americans even
is showing a slight majority for relaxed relations. The big problem is
property. The US to this point has supported exiles' claims. In ex-
communist Europe this tact has put all kinds of public property in the
hands of all manner of schemers, including many Americans playing the
dual citizenship games and such. US to this point has thumbed its nose
at suits brought by Cuba for compensation of damages and deaths
resulting from the US based terror bombing campaign that was waged for
years. I understand that some of the hotel bombings and public
transport bombings we paid for in Cuba killed a number of people. For
a while we even refused to extradite one guy who blew up a Cuban
civilian airliner, killing all on board. My guess we will eventually
tire of this crap but I wouldn't put money on an early solution.

Note: the Batista clique in Miami bought Clinton on this issue for
less that 200k as I recall. They got it for free from the
Republicrats.

I find it much more disturbing how the Israelis are setting up the
playing field for extorting more money from the US and keeping Obama
in line, with this bull**** they have staged in Gaza. It is disgusting
how almost all the mainstream US media is just re-reading the Israeli
press releases. The rest of the world is furious over the air strikes
the IDF has conducted, shooting serious munitions right into Gaza
City. Almost 300 civilian deaths so far and the attacks will probably
continue tomorrow. Must take very brave airmen to blast the **** out
of an undefended city with a starving population. God forgive us for
our culpability in this war crime.

Dave
Ideology Kills

On Dec 28, 11:30*pm, DaveS wrote:

Here is an editorial from the Israeli largest newspaper, Haaretz,
against the bombing of Gaza. Apparently the Israeli newspapers have
more guts to call a spade a spade, or a war crime a war crime, than
our US papers.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050459.html

David M. Snedeker

DaveS wrote:

I find it much more disturbing how the Israelis are setting up the
playing field for extorting more money from the US and keeping Obama
in line, with this bull**** they have staged in Gaza.

I don't think there's any ff to speak of in Gaza.

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On Dec 29, 5:34*am, rw wrote:

And there was even less FF in 1944 Warsaw.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10015.shtml

Dave

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:30:34 -0800 (PST), DaveS
wrote:

I find it much more disturbing how the Israelis are setting up the
playing field for extorting more money from the US and keeping Obama
in line, with this bull**** they have staged in Gaza.

If the Canuckistans started lobbing unguided missles towards Whidbey
Island, killing U.S. citizens, do ya think that we would have the
right to respond to such terrorism? Or, do you think that we should
just sit back, make more treaties for Canuckistanian Hamas to break,
and let them continue to kill our citizens.

Hamas is infamous for putting missle pads in populated areas. THEY
are at fault, Dave, not the Jews. The Jews have a right, just as you
do on Whidbey Island, to defend themselves. Hamas broke this latest
cease fire, not Israel.

Over the years, David, I have noticed an anti-Jew bend to your
idealogy. Why is that?

Dave

Dave LaCourse wrote:
DaveS wrote:
I find it much more disturbing how the Israelis are setting up the
playing field for extorting more money from the US and keeping Obama
in line, with this bull**** they have staged in Gaza.

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Over the years, David, I have noticed an anti-Jew bend to your
idealogy. Why is that?

It's the typical right-wing ideologue who always conflates any
criticism of Israel with "anti-Jew".

I say we should arm Hamas with guns, tanks, jets and a couple
of dozen nukes just to even the playing field and then turn
them loose on each other. No matter who "wins" the whole area
will end up a nuclear wasteland for the foreseeable future
but at least it will have been confined to Palestine.

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Ken Fortenberry