a sense of perspective

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:11:15 -0500, Peter Charles
wrote:

Well, we could sit here and sling, "My study is better than your
study." but the most comprehensive, fair, unbiased and massive study I
ran across had Canada slightly ahead overall. It acknowledged that
the U.S. system does a better job on cardiac care but worse in others.
True to form of course, our press only reported the cardiac care side
of things.

Peter, I don't want to get into this ****ing contest, but go to a
cancer newsgroup, say, prostate cancer. The American patients have
far more successful treatments than do the Canadians, or the English.
I used to be active in such a group and almost every Canadian patient
was incontinent and impotent because of poor treatment. In the
states, however, the docs have come up with a rather long procedure
that ensures almost normal activity after the surgery. If you
experience prostate cancer, I urge you to come to the states.

Dave

"Jeff Miller" wrote

, east carolina
university here in "gruhnville" was 1st in rankings of colleges' ugliest
football uniforms. i gotta admit purple ain't as cute as powder blue or
orange, but ugliest in the country? ...shaky *and* questionable.

where did you find those rankings?

and yeah, the pie-rates don't look as bad as the hokies, or the ducks.

yfitp
wayno

David Snedeker typed:
"daytripper" wrote in message
...

To Dicklet: Your fortune cookie: "You are remarkably dishonest"

No **** Tripper. This is the same Dicklet who was playing like such an
expert on Arabia and oil and the Mid -east and how Bush and the
Cheneys of this world knew what was best. Ditto with some others
here, but most at least have enough honor to cool it when all the
Chickenhawk war fever bull**** starts to stink.
snip
Its time to bring our troops home and say **** it: let the
Iraqis sort out their own ****.

Now *that* sounds honorable!
--
TL,
Tim
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:27:45 -0800, "David Snedeker"
wrote:


"daytripper" wrote in message
.. .

To Dicklet: Your fortune cookie: "You are remarkably dishonest"

No **** Tripper. This is the same Dicklet who was playing like such an
expert on Arabia and oil and the Mid -east and how Bush and the Cheneys of
this world knew what was best. Ditto with some others here, but most at
least have enough honor to cool it when all the Chickenhawk war fever
bull**** starts to stink.

But some here are menches; yada, yada, yada...

And what holiday season would be complete without the sufganiyot
doughboy...

Dave
Ideology sucks bigtime

"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
...

Peter, I don't want to get into this ****ing contest, but [someone is
evidently holding a gun to my head]...

Call 911.

You should be able to find the number in the phone book under the heading
"Emergency Numbers". Failing that, directory assistance can find it for
you. Hell, they'll even dial it for you.

Wolfgang
brought to you as a public service by the "don't make me do that"
foundation.

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:01:48 -0500, "Tim J."
wrote:

David Snedeker typed:
"daytripper" wrote in message
...

To Dicklet: Your fortune cookie: "You are remarkably dishonest"

No **** Tripper. This is the same Dicklet who was playing like such an
expert on Arabia and oil and the Mid -east and how Bush and the
Cheneys of this world knew what was best. Ditto with some others
here, but most at least have enough honor to cool it when all the
Chickenhawk war fever bull**** starts to stink.
snip
Its time to bring our troops home and say **** it: let the
Iraqis sort out their own ****.

Now *that* sounds honorable!

"The Germans?" "Shhh, he's on a roll...."

Tim J. wrote:
David Snedeker typed:
snip
Its time to bring our troops home and say **** it: let the
Iraqis sort out their own ****.


Now *that* sounds honorable!

It's inevitable. The only way to hold that country together
is the way Saddam Hussein did it. Because it's *not* a
country, never has been. Iraq is a British invention scratched
out on the back of envelope after WW1. Of all the unlikely
places for the neo-cons to attempt nation building Iraq has to
be one of the *most* unlikely. They have no tradition of
democracy and it is hubris for us to assume they'd even want
a western style democracy.

The Sunnis are toast, the Kurds will secede and the Shia will
be an Iranian province. And there's not a goddamn thing in the
world we can do about it so we may as well get the hell out of
there before we get even more people killed for Shrub's lunacy.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Actually, it was Strother Martin, as the Captain of Road Prison 36, who
said, "What we've got here is... failure to communicate." But I won't
argue your point.

"Bob Patton" wrote ...
"Wayne Knight" wrote in message ...
//snip//
I've managed to stay out of all the other recent wierd threads and this
one until now. Back to lurk mode.

Wayne

Speaking of lurk mode . . .

I went to T*******o yesterday. Rainy, cold, miserable weather. And big,
bright, hook-jawed rainbows. It's been too long since I'd been there and
now I need to get back quickly. Incredible.

Bob


Political threads turning to fishing stories... I love ROFF.....

Dan

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote ...

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neo-cons ....hubris

Yup.


The Sunnis are toast, the Kurds will secede and the Shia will
be an Iranian province.

Which would certainly turn this story into something of a prophecy...

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30931

(Old, but funny nonetheless)


And there's not a goddamn thing in the
world we can do about it so we may as well get the hell out of
there before we get even more people killed for Shrub's lunacy.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Dan